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Quasi-period collapse in half-integral polygons

Combinatorics 2025-07-03 v2

Abstract

A half-integral polygon with quasi-period collapse behaves similarly to a lattice polygon in the sense that the number of lattice points in its integer dilates can be calculated as values of a polynomial, its Ehrhart polynomial. As a main result, we classify the Ehrhart polynomials of all half-integral non-lattice polygons with quasi-period collapse. In particular, we obtain that for any positive integer ii, the polynomial 4i+52t2+2i+72t+1Q[t]\frac{4i+5}{2}t^2+\frac{2i+7}{2}t+1\in \mathbb{Q}[t] is an Ehrhart polynomial of a rational polygon, which was an open question for i>1i>1. We also study some extreme cases in detail. In particular, we show that up to affine unimodular equivalence there exist exactly 3030 half-integral non-lattice polygons with quasi-periodic collapse with exactly one interior lattice point, which are the dual polygons of the 3030 LDP polygons of Gorenstein index 22. Furthermore, we classify all half-integral polygons with quasi-period collapse with at most 66 interior lattice points or with i1i\geq 1 interior lattice points and the maximum possible number 2i+72i+7 of boundary lattice points.

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@article{arxiv.2405.13404,
  title  = {Quasi-period collapse in half-integral polygons},
  author = {Martin Bohnert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.13404},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

28 pages, 7 figures; typos corrected

R2 v1 2026-06-28T16:35:18.848Z