On the convex hull of integer points above the hyperbola
Combinatorics
2025-02-03 v1 Computational Geometry
Abstract
We show that the polyhedron defined as the convex hull of the lattice points above the hyperbola has between and vertices. The same bounds apply to any hyperbola with rational slopes except that instead of we have in the lower bound and by in the upper bound, where is the discriminant. We also give an algorithm that enumerates the vertices of these convex hulls in logarithmic time per vertex. One motivation for such an algorithm is the deterministic factorization of integers.
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@article{arxiv.2501.19193,
title = {On the convex hull of integer points above the hyperbola},
author = {David Alcántara and Mónica Blanco and Francisco Criado and Francisco Santos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.19193},
year = {2025}
}
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26 pages