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3-Dimensional Lattice Polytopes Without Interior Lattice Points

Combinatorics 2008-09-11 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

A theorem of Howe states that every 3-dimensional lattice polytope PP whose only lattice points are its vertices, is a Cayley polytope, i.e. PP is the convex hull of two lattice polygons with distance one. We want to generalize this result by classifying 3-dimensional lattice polytopes without interior lattice points. The main result will be, that they are up to finite many exceptions either Cayley polytopes or there is a projection, which maps the polytope to the double unimodular 2-simplex. To every such polytope we associate a smooth projective surface of genus 0.

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@article{arxiv.0809.1787,
  title  = {3-Dimensional Lattice Polytopes Without Interior Lattice Points},
  author = {Jaron Treutlein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.1787},
  year   = {2008}
}

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12 pages, 3 figures

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