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Ehrhart polynomial roots of reflexive polytopes

Combinatorics 2021-12-17 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Recent work has focused on the roots z of the Ehrhart polynomial of a lattice polytope P. The case when Re(z) = -1/2 is of particular interest: these polytopes satisfy Golyshev's "canonical line hypothesis". We characterise such polytopes when dim(P) <= 7. We also consider the "half-strip condition", where all roots z satisfy -dim(P)/2 <= Re(z) <= dim(P)/2-1, and show that this holds for any reflexive polytope with dim(P) <= 5. We give an example of a 10-dimensional reflexive polytope which violates the half-strip condition, thus improving on an example by Ohsugi--Shibata in dimension 34.

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@article{arxiv.1503.05739,
  title  = {Ehrhart polynomial roots of reflexive polytopes},
  author = {Gábor Hegedüs and Akihiro Higashitani and Alexander Kasprzyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.05739},
  year   = {2021}
}

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20 pages, 1 figure