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Lattice Polytopes and Root Systems

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Consider a lattice in a real finite dimensional vector space. Here, we are interested in the lattice polytopes, that is the convex hulls of finite subsets of the lattice. Consider the group GG of the affine real transformations which map the lattice onto itself. Replacing the group of euclidean motions by the group GG one can define the notion of regular lattice polytopes. More precisely, a lattice polytope is said to be regular if the subgroup of GG which preserves the polytope acts transitively on the set of its complete flags. Recently, Karpenkov obtained a classification of the regular lattice polytopes. Here we obtain this classification by a more conceptual method. Another difference is that Karpenkov uses in an essential way the classification of the euclidean regular polytopes, but we don't.

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@article{arxiv.math/0609809,
  title  = {Lattice Polytopes and Root Systems},
  author = {Nicolas Ressayre and Pierre-Louis Montagard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0609809},
  year   = {2007}
}

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14 pages, 1 Figure, 1 Table