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Unimodality questions for integrally closed lattice polytopes

Combinatorics 2011-10-18 v1

Abstract

It is a famous open question whether every integrally closed reflexive polytope has a unimodal Ehrhart delta-vector. We generalize this question to arbitrary integrally closed lattice polytopes and we prove unimodality for the delta-vector of lattice parallelepipeds. This is the first nontrivial class of integrally closed polytopes. Moreover, we suggest a new approach to the problem for reflexive polytopes via triangulations.

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@article{arxiv.1110.3724,
  title  = {Unimodality questions for integrally closed lattice polytopes},
  author = {Jan Schepers and Leen Van Langenhoven},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.3724},
  year   = {2011}
}

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16 pages