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In Ehrhart theory, the well-known sign pattern problem asks: given a positive integer $d\geq 3$ and integers $1 \leq i_1 < \cdots < i_k \leq d-2$, does there exist a $d$-dimensional integral polytope $\mathcal{P}$ such that in its Ehrhart…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Feihu Liu , Sihao Tao , Guoce Xin

Ehrhart's famous theorem states that the number of integral points in a rational polytope is a quasi-polynomial in the integral dilation factor. We study the case of rational dilation factors and it turns out that the number of integral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-04 Eva Linke

We show that the Ehrhart h-vector of an integer Gorenstein polytope with a regular unimodular triangulation satisfies McMullen's g-theorem; in particular, it is unimodal. This result generalizes a recent theorem of Athanasiadis (conjectured…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Winfried Bruns , Tim Roemer

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

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

We consider the Ehrhart $h^*$-vector for the hypersimplex. It is well-known that the sum of the $h_i^*$ is the normalized volume which equals an Eulerian numbers. The main result is a proof of a conjecture by R. Stanley which gives an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-08-10 Nan Li

We introduce the notion of combinatorial positivity of translation-invariant valuations on convex polytopes that extends the nonnegativity of Ehrhart h*-vectors. We give a surprisingly simple characterization of combinatorially positive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Katharina Jochemko , Raman Sanyal

Equivariant Ehrhart theory generalizes the study of lattice point enumeration to also account for the symmetries of a polytope under a linear group action. We present a catalogue of techniques with applications in this field, including…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Sophia Elia , Donghyun Kim , Mariel Supina

Ehrhart theory is the study of the enumeration of lattice points in lattice polytopes. Equivariant Ehrhart theory is a generalization of Ehrhart theory that takes into account the action of a finite group acting via affine transformations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Alan Stapledon

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

We give a cohomological and geometrical interpretation for the weighted Ehrhart theory of a full-dimensional lattice polytope $P$, with Laurent polynomial weights of geometric origin. For this purpose, we calculate the motivic Chern and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Laurentiu Maxim , Jörg Schürmann

The h^*-polynomial of a lattice polytope is the numerator of the generating function of the Ehrhart polynomial. Let P be a lattice polytope with h^*-polynomial of degree d and with linear coefficient h^*_1. We show that P has to be a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-29 Benjamin Nill

We investigate arithmetic, geometric and combinatorial properties of symmetric edge polytopes. We give a complete combinatorial description of their facets. By combining Gr\"obner basis techniques, half-open decompositions and methods for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Akihiro Higashitani , Katharina Jochemko , Mateusz Michałek

We discuss inequalities between the values of \emph{homotopical and cohomological Poincar\'e polynomials} of the self-products of rationally elliptic spaces. For rationally elliptic quasi-projective varieties, we prove inequalities between…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Anatoly Libgober , Shoji Yokura

In algebraic, topological, and geometric combinatorics inequalities among the coefficients of combinatorial polynomials are frequently studied. Recently a notion called the alternatingly increasing property, which is stronger than…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Petter Brändén , Liam Solus

In this note we investigate the convex hull of those $n \times n$-permutation matrices that correspond to symmetries of a regular $n$-gon. We give the complete facet description. As an application, we show that this yields a Gorenstein…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-19 Barbara Baumeister , Christian Haase , Benjamin Nill , Andreas Paffenholz

A classical result by Kreweras (1965) allows one to compute the number of plane partitions of a given skew shape and bounded parts as certain determinants. We prove that these determinants expand as polynomials with nonnegative…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Luis Ferroni , Alejandro H. Morales , Greta Panova

The Ehrhart polynomial of an integral convex polytope counts the number of lattice points in dilates of the polytope. In math.CO/0402148, the authors conjectured that for any cyclic polytope with integral parameters, the Ehrhart polynomial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Fu Liu

We give a $K$-theoretic and geometric interpretation for a generalized weighted Ehrhart theory of a full-dimensional lattice polytope $P$, depending on a given homogeneous polynomial function $\varphi$ on $P$, and with Laurent polynomial…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Laurenţiu Maxim , Jörg Schürmann

We give a new proof for a theorem of Ehrhart regarding the quasi-polynomiality of the function that counts the number of integer points in the integral dilates of a rational polytope. The proof involves a geometric bijection,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-27 Steven V Sam