English
Related papers

Related papers: On positivity of Ehrhart polynomials

200 papers

It is shown that, for each $d \geq 4$, there exists an integral convex polytope $\mathcal{P}$ of dimension $d$ such that each of the coefficients of $n, n^{2}, \ldots, n^{d-2}$ of its Ehrhart polynomial $i(\mathcal{P},n)$ is negative.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Takayuki Hibi , Akihiro Higashitani , Akiyoshi Tsuchiya , Koutarou Yoshida

We use the residue theorem to derive an expression for the number of lattice oints in a dilated n-dimensional tetrahedron with vertices at lattice points on each coordinate axis and the origin. This expression is known as the Ehrhart…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Matthias Beck

Equivariant Ehrhart theory enumerates the lattice points in a polytope with respect to a group action. Answering a question of Stapledon, we describe the equivariant Ehrhart theory of the permutahedron, and we prove his Effectiveness…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Federico Ardila , Mariel Supina , Andrés R. Vindas-Meléndez

The Ehrhart function $L_P(t)$ of a polytope $P$ is usually defined only for integer dilation arguments $t$. By allowing arbitrary real numbers as arguments we may also detect integer points entering (or leaving) the polytope in fractional…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-13 Tiago Royer

It was observed by Bump et al. that Ehrhart polynomials in a special family exhibit properties similar to the Riemann {\zeta} function. The construction was generalized by Matsui et al. to a larger family of reflexive polytopes coming from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Akihiro Higashitani , Mario Kummer , Mateusz Michałek

Ehrhart theory is the study of sequences recording the number of integer points in non-negative integral dilates of rational polytopes. For a given lattice polytope, this sequence is encoded in a finite vector called the Ehrhart…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-30 Benjamin Braun

The magic positivity of Ehrhart polynomials is a useful tool for proving the real-rootedness of the $h^\ast$-polynomials. In this paper, we provide a new class of reflexive polytopes whose Ehrhart polynomials are magic positive. First, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Masato Konoike

The Ehrhart polynomial of a lattice polytope $P$ encodes information about the number of integer lattice points in positive integral dilates of $P$. The $h^\ast$-polynomial of $P$ is the numerator polynomial of the generating function of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Matthias Beck , Katharina Jochemko , Emily McCullough

Motivated by representation theory and geometry, we introduce and develop an equivariant generalization of Ehrhart theory, the study of lattice points in dilations of lattice polytopes. We prove representation-theoretic analogues of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-05 Alan Stapledon

A rational polytope is the convex hull of a finite set of points in $\R^d$ with rational coordinates. Given a rational polytope $P \subseteq \R^d$, Ehrhart proved that, for $t\in\Z_{\ge 0}$, the function $#(tP \cap \Z^d)$ agrees with a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-05-04 Steven V Sam , Kevin M. Woods

We present an algorithm for growing the denominator $r$ polygons containing a fixed number of lattice points and enumerate such polygons containing few lattice points for small $r$. We describe the Ehrhart quasi-polynomial of a rational…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Girtrude Hamm , Johannes Hofscheier , Alexander Kasprzyk

It is shown that, for each $d \geq 4$, there exists an integral convex polytope $\mathcal{P}$ of dimension $d$ such that each of the coefficients of $n, n^{2}, \ldots, n^{d-2}$ of its Ehrhart polynomial $i(\mathcal{P},n)$ is negative.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-03 Takayuki Hibi , Akihiro Higashitani , Akiyoshi Tsuchiya , Koutarou Yoshida

If $\mathcal{P}$ is a lattice polytope (i.e., $\mathcal{P}$ is the convex hull of finitely many integer points in $\mathbb{R}^d$), Ehrhart's famous theorem (1962) asserts that the integer-point counting function $|t \mathcal{P} \cap…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Matthias Beck , Thomas Kunze

A polynomial $f(x)$ of degree $d$ is said to be magic positive if all the coefficients are non-negative when $f(x)$ is expanded with respect to the basis $\{x^i(x+1)^{d-i}\}_{i=0}^d$. It is known that if $f(x)$ is magic positive, then the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Masato Konoike

For a lattice polytope P, define A_P(t) as the sum of the solid angles of all the integer points in the dilate tP. Ehrhart and Macdonald proved that A_P(t) is a polynomial in the positive integer variable t. We study the numerator…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-29 Matthias Beck , Sinai Robins , Steven V Sam

Demazure characters, also known as key polynomials, generalize the classical Schur polynomials. In particular, when all variables are set equal to $1$, these polynomials count the number of integer points in a certain class of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Per Alexandersson , Elie Alhajjar

The Ehrhart polynomial of a lattice polygon P is completely determined by the pair (b(P),i(P)) where b(P) equals the number of lattice points on the boundary and i(P) equals the number of interior lattice points. All possible pairs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Johannes Hofscheier , Benjamin Nill , Dennis Öberg

Ehrhart theory measures a polytope P discretely by counting the lattice points inside its dilates P, 2P, 3P, .... We compute the Ehrhart quasipolynomials of the standard Coxeter permutahedra for the classical Coxeter groups, expressing them…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Federico Ardila , Matthias Beck , Jodi McWhirter

We present lower bounds for the coefficients of Ehrhart polynomials of convex lattice polytopes in terms of their volume. Concerning the coefficients of the Ehrhart series of a lattice polytope we show that Hibi's lower bound is not true…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-26 Martin Henk , Makoto Tagami

We give a new definition of lattice-face polytopes by removing an unnecessary restriction in the paper "Ehrhart polynomials of lattice-face polytopes", and show that with the new definition, the Ehrhart polynomial of a lattice-face polytope…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-10-28 Fu Liu