Classification of empty lattice $4$-simplices of width larger than two
Abstract
A lattice -simplex is the convex hull of affinely independent integer points in . It is called empty if it contains no lattice point apart of its vertices. The classification of empty -simplices is known since 1964 (White), based on the fact that they all have width one. But for dimension no complete classification is known. Haase and Ziegler (2000) enumerated all empty -simplices up to determinant 1000 and based on their results conjectured that after determinant all empty -simplices have width one or two. We prove this conjecture as follows: - We show that no empty -simplex of width three or more can have determinant greater than 5058, by combining the recent classification of hollow 3-polytopes (Averkov, Kr\"umpelmann and Weltge, 2017) with general methods from the geometry of numbers. - We continue the computations of Haase and Ziegler up to determinant 7600, and find that no new -simplices of width larger than two arise. In particular, we give the whole list of empty -simplices of width larger than two, which is as computed by Haase and Ziegler: There is a single empty -simplex of width four (of determinant 101), and 178 empty -simplices of width three, with determinants ranging from 41 to 179.
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@article{arxiv.1704.07299,
title = {Classification of empty lattice $4$-simplices of width larger than two},
author = {Óscar Iglesias Valiño and Francisco Santos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.07299},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
21 pages, 5 figures; The appendix from v3 has been incorporated into the main text. This version has been accepted for publication in Trans. Ame. Math. Soc