Boundaries of pseudointegral polygons
Abstract
We prove that a rational pseudointegral triangle with exactly one lattice point in its interior has at most lattice points on its boundary, where a polygon is called pseudointegral if the Ehrhart function of is a polynomial. We further show that such a triangle never has exactly lattice points on its boundary. Our results determine the set of all Ehrhart polynomials of rational triangles with one interior lattice point. In addition, we construct convex pseudointegral polygons with interior lattice points and boundary lattice points for all positive integral values of such that . This is in contrast to integral polygons, which must satisfy by a result of Scott. Our constructions yield many new Ehrhart polynomials of rational polygons in the case.
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@article{arxiv.2501.00667,
title = {Boundaries of pseudointegral polygons},
author = {Tyrrell B. McAllister and Jason S. Williford},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.00667},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
22 pages. Typos corrected and exposition improved