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In this work we establish a connection between copositivity, that is, nonnegativity on the positive orthant, of sparse real Laurent polynomials and discriminants. Specifically, we consider Laurent polynomials in the positive orthant with…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Elisenda Feliu , Joan Ferrer , Máté L. Telek

We give a criterion which characterizes a real multi-variate Laurent polynomial with full-dimensional smooth Newton polytope to have the property that all sufficiently large powers of the polynomial have fully positive coefficients. Here a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Colin Tan , Wing-Keung To

We consider a formula of Stanley that expresses the Ehrhart generating polynomial of a polyhedral complex in terms of the h-polynomials of toric varieties. We prove that the coefficients in this expression are all non-negative and show that…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kalle Karu

The Baldoni--Vergne volume and Ehrhart polynomial formulas for flow polytopes are significant in at least two ways. On one hand, these formulas are in terms of Kostant partition functions, connecting flow polytopes to this classical vector…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Kabir Kapoor , Karola Mészáros , Linus Setiabrata

The order polytopes arising from the finite poset were first introduced and studied by Stanley. For any positive integer $d\geq 14$, Liu and Tsuchiya proved that there exists a non-Ehrhart positive order polytope of dimension $d$. They also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Feihu Liu , Guoce Xin , Zihao Zhang

Eberhard-type theorems are statements about the realizability of a polytope (or more general polyhedral maps) given the valency of its vertices and sizes of its polygonal faces up to a linear linear degree of freedom. We present new…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-04 Sebastian Manecke

Preorder polytopes, defined from preorders on finite sets, are introduced and studied from a lattice point enumeration point of view. They naturally generalize arbor polytopes, recently introduced and studied by the second named author.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Frédéric Chapoton , Christos A. Athanasiadis

An interesting open problem in Ehrhart theory is to classify those lattice polytopes having a unimodal $h^*$-vector. Although various sufficient conditions have been found, necessary conditions remain a challenge. In this paper, we consider…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-28 Benjamin Braun , Robert Davis

In the present paper, we introduce a multibasic extension of the Ehrhart theory. We give a multibasic extension of Ehrhart polynomials and Ehrhart series. We also show that an analogue of Ehrhart reciprocity holds for multibasic Ehrhart…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Aki Mori , Takeshi Morita , Akihiro Shikama

We investigate the Ehrhart polynomial for the class of 0-symmetric convex lattice polytopes in Euclidean $n$-space $\mathbb{R}^n$. It turns out that the roots of the Ehrhart polynomial and Minkowski's successive minima are closely related…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-20 Martin Henk , Achill Schuermann , Joerg M. Wills

There is a well-established dictionary between zonotopes, hyperplane arrangements, and their (oriented) matroids. Arguably one of the most famous examples is the class of graphical zonotopes, also called acyclotopes, which encode…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Eleonore Bach , Matthias Beck , Sophie Rehberg

We study Ehrhart series with coefficients in Abelian group rings. This opens new enumeration applications and unifies earlier variants, in particular, polynomial weighted, $q$-weighted, and equivariant Ehrhart series.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Robert Davis , Jesús A. De Loera , Alexey Garber , Katharina Jochemko , Josephine Yu

Panhandle matroids are a specific family of lattice-path matroids corresponding to panhandle-shaped Ferrers diagrams. Their matroid polytopes are the subpolytopes carved from a hypersimplex to form matroid polytopes of paving matroids. It…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Danai Deligeorgaki , Daniel McGinnis , Andrés R. Vindas-Meléndez

This dissertation presents new results on three different themes all related to matroid polytopes. First we investigate properties of Ehrhart polynomials of matroid polytopes, independence matroid polytopes, and polymatroids. We prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-05-28 David C. Haws

Recent work has focused on the roots z of the Ehrhart polynomial of a lattice polytope P. The case when Re(z) = -1/2 is of particular interest: these polytopes satisfy Golyshev's "canonical line hypothesis". We characterise such polytopes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-17 Gábor Hegedüs , Akihiro Higashitani , Alexander Kasprzyk

A theorem of Hunter ensures that the complete homogeneous symmetric polynomials of even degree are positive definite functions. A probabilistic interpretation of Hunter's theorem suggests a broad generalization: the construction of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Ludovick Bouthat , Ángel Chávez , Stephan Ramon Garcia

In this paper, we concentrate on counting and testing dominant polynomials with integer coefficients. A polynomial is called dominant if it has a simple root whose modulus is strictly greater than the moduli of its remaining roots. In…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-13 Artūras Dubickas , Min Sha

We classify the three-dimensional lattice polytopes with two interior lattice points. Up to unimodular equivalence there are 22,673,449 such polytopes. This classification allows us to verify, for this case only, a conjectural upper bound…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Gabriele Balletti , Alexander M. Kasprzyk

A lattice polytope $P$ is called IDP if any lattice point in its $k$th dilate is a sum of $k$ lattice points in $P$. In 1991 Stanley proved a strong inequality in Ehrhart theory for IDP lattice polytopes. We show that his conclusion holds…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-07 Johannes Hofscheier , Lukas Katthän , Benjamin Nill

This note is an introduction to the properties of stable polynomials in several variables with real or complex coefficients. These polynomials are defined in terms of where the polynomial is non-vanishing. We do not cover well-known topics…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2008-03-04 Steve Fisk