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New irrational polygons with Ehrhart-theoretic period collapse

Combinatorics 2018-08-02 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

In a recent paper, Cristofaro-Gardiner--Li--Stanley [CGLS15] constructed examples of irrational triangles whose Ehrhart functions (i.e. lattice-point count) are polynomials when restricted to positive integer dilation factors. This is very surprising because the Ehrhart functions of rational polygons are usually only quasi-polynomials. We demonstrate that most of their triangles can also be obtained by a simple cut-and-paste procedure that allows us to build new examples with more sides. Our examples might potentially have applications in the theory of symplectic embeddings.

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@article{arxiv.1808.00146,
  title  = {New irrational polygons with Ehrhart-theoretic period collapse},
  author = {Quang-Nhat Le},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.00146},
  year   = {2018}
}

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7 pages

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