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Roots of Ehrhart polynomials and symmetric $\delta$-vectors

Combinatorics 2012-11-16 v2

Abstract

The conjecture on roots of Ehrhart polynomials, stated by Matsui et al. \cite[Conjecture 4.10]{MHNOH}, says that all roots α\alpha of the Ehrhart polynomial of a Gorenstein Fano polytope of dimension dd satisfy d2(α)d21-\frac{d}{2} \leq \Re(\alpha) \leq \frac{d}{2} -1. In this paper, we observe the behaviors of roots of SSNN polynomials which are a wider class of the polynomials containing all the Ehrhart polynomials of Gorenstein Fano polytopes. As a result, we verify that this conjecture is true when the roots are real numbers or when d5d \leq 5.

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@article{arxiv.1112.5777,
  title  = {Roots of Ehrhart polynomials and symmetric $\delta$-vectors},
  author = {Akihiro Higashitani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.5777},
  year   = {2012}
}

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