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Hollow polytopes of large width

Combinatorics 2019-12-24 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We construct a hollow lattice polytope (resp. a hollow lattice simplex) of dimension 1414 (resp. 404~404) and of width 1515 (resp. 408~408). They are the first known hollow lattice polytopes of width larger than dimension. We also construct a hollow (non-lattice) tetrahedron of width 2+22+\sqrt2 and conjecture that this is the maximum width among 33-dimensional hollow convex bodies. We show that the maximum lattice width grows (at least) additively with dd. In particular, the constructions above imply the existence of hollow lattice polytopes (resp. hollow simplices) of arbitrarily large dimension dd and width 1.14d\simeq 1.14 d (resp. 1.01d~\simeq 1.01 d).

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@article{arxiv.1812.00916,
  title  = {Hollow polytopes of large width},
  author = {Giulia Codenotti and Francisco Santos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.00916},
  year   = {2019}
}

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17 pages, 3 figures

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