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In connection with an unsolved problem of Bang (1951) we give a lower bound for the sum of the base volumes of cylinders covering a d-dimensional convex body in terms of the relevant basic measures of the given convex body. As an…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-29 Karoly Bezdek , Alexander Litvak

An empty simplex is a lattice simplex in which vertices are the only lattice points. We show two constructions leading to the first known empty simplices of width larger than their dimension: - We introduce cyclotomic simplices and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Joseph Doolittle , Lukas Katthän , Benjamin Nill , Francisco Santos

We study an optimal stretching problem for certain convex domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$ ($d\geq 3$) whose boundary has points of vanishing Gaussian curvature. We prove that the optimal domain which contains the most positive (or least…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-19 Jingwei Guo , Weiwei Wang

The illumination conjecture is a classical open problem in convex and discrete geometry, asserting that every compact convex body~$K$ in $\mathbb R^n$ can be illuminated by a set of no more than $2^n$ points. If $K$ has smooth boundary, it…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-31 Lenny Fukshansky

In this paper we motivate some new directions of research regarding the lattice width of convex bodies. We show that convex bodies of sufficiently large width contain a unimodular copy of a standard simplex. This implies that every lattice…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Gennadiy Averkov , Johannes Hofscheier , Benjamin Nill

In 2021, Ordentlich, Regev and Weiss made a breakthrough that the lattice covering density of any $n$-dimensional convex body is upper bounded by $cn^{2}$, improving on the best previous bound established by Rogers in 1959. However, for the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Matthias Schymura , Jun Wang , Fei Xue

We give a deterministic 2^{O(n)} algorithm for computing an M-ellipsoid of a convex body, matching a known lower bound. This has several interesting consequences including improved deterministic algorithms for volume estimation of convex…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-03-05 Daniel Dadush , Santosh Vempala

The theta series of a lattice is a power series that characterizes the number of lattice vectors at certain norms. It is closely related to a critical quantity widely used in physical layer security and cryptography, known as the flatness…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Maiara F. Bollauf , Hsuan-Yin Lin

We give bounds on the successive minima of an $o$-symmetric convex body under the restriction that the lattice points realizing the successive minima are not contained in a collection of forbidden sublattices. Our investigations extend…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Martin Henk , Carsten Thiel

For a positive integer $n$, let $[n]$ denote $\{1, \ldots, n\}$. For a 2-dimensional integer lattice point $\mathbf{b}$ and positive integers $k\geq 2$ and $n$, a \textit{$k$-sum $\mathbf{b}$-free set} of $[n]\times [n]$ is a subset $S$ of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-13 Ilkyoo Choi , Ringi Kim , Boram Park

We study an optimal stretching problem, which is a variant lattice point problem, for convex domains in $\mathbb{R}^d$ ($d\geq 2$) with smooth boundary of finite type that are symmetric with respect to each coordinate hyperplane/axis. We…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-12 J. Guo , T. Jiang

We derive a sharp scaling law for deviations of edge-isoperimetric sets in the lattice $\mathbb Z^d$ from the limiting Wulff shape in arbitrary dimensions. As the number $n$ of elements diverges, we prove that the symmetric difference to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Edoardo Mainini , Bernd Schmidt

We give a novel algorithm for enumerating lattice points in any convex body, and give applications to several classic lattice problems, including the Shortest and Closest Vector Problems (SVP and CVP, respectively) and Integer Programming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-06-14 Daniel Dadush , Chris Peikert , Santosh Vempala

Let $\# K$ be a number of integer lattice points contained in a set $K$. In this paper we prove that for each $d\in {\mathbb N}$ there exists a constant $C(d)$ depending on $d$ only, such that for any origin-symmetric convex body $K \subset…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-10 Matthew Alexander , Martin Henk , Artem Zvavitch

By studying the volume of a generalized difference body, this paper presents the first nontrivial lower bound for the lattice covering density by $n$-dimensional simplices.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-17 Fei Xue , Chuanming Zong

We consider a model that arises in integer programming, and show that all irredundant inequalities are obtained from maximal lattice-free convex sets in an affine subspace. We also show that these sets are polyhedra. The latter result…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-24 Amitabh Basu , Michele Conforti , Gerard Cornuejols , Giacomo Zambelli

One of the most fruitful results from Minkowski's geometric viewpoint on number theory is his so called 1st Fundamental Theorem. It provides an optimal upper bound for the volume of an o-symmetric convex body whose only interior lattice…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Bernardo González Merino , Matthias Henze

Starting with a finite point set $X \subset \mathbf{R}^d$, the peeling process repeatedly removes the set of the vertices of the convex hull of the current set. The number of peeling steps required to completely remove $X$ is called the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-22 Gergely Ambrus , Peter Nielsen , Caledonia Wilson

Let $K$ be a maximal lattice-free set in $\mathbb{R}^d$, that is, $K$ is convex and closed subset of $\mathbb{R}^d$, the interior of $K$ does not cointain points of $\mathbb{Z}^d$ and $K$ is inclusion-maximal with respect to the above…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-06 Gennadiy Averkov

The Erd\H{o}s distance problem concerns the least number of distinct distances that can be determined by $N$ points in the plane. The integer lattice with $N$ points is known as \textit{near-optimal}, as it spans $\Theta(N/\sqrt{\log(N)})$…