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Average-sized miniatures and normal-sized miniatures of lattice polytopes

Combinatorics 2026-05-21 v4

Abstract

Let d0d \geq 0 be an integer and let PRdP \subset \mathbb R^d be a dd-dimensional lattice polytope. We call a polytope MRdM \subset \mathbb R^d such that MPM \subset P and MPM \sim P a {\itshape miniature} of P,P, and it is said to be {\itshape horizontal} if MM is transformed into PP by translating and rescaling. A miniature MM of PP is said to be {\itshape average-sized} (resp.~{\itshape normal-sized}) if the volume of MM is equal to the limit of the sequence whose nn-th term is the average of the volumes of all miniarures (resp.~all horizontal miniatures) whose vertices belong to (n1Z)d.(n^{-1}\mathbb Z)^d. We prove that, for any lattice square PR2,P \subset \mathbb R^2, the ratio of the areas of an average-sized miniature of PP and PP is 2:15.2:15. We also prove that, for any lattice simplex PRd,P \subset \mathbb R^d, the ratio of the volume of a normal-sized miniature of PP to that of PP is 1:(2d+1d).1:\binom{2d+1}{d}. This ratio is same as the known result for the hypercube [0,1]d[0,1]^d provided by the author.

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@article{arxiv.2501.00459,
  title  = {Average-sized miniatures and normal-sized miniatures of lattice polytopes},
  author = {Takashi Hirotsu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.00459},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

7 pages, 3 figures; Corrected misprints