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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 say a polytope is Ehrhart positive if all the coefficients in its Ehrhart polynomial are positive. Answering an Ehrhart positivity question posed on Mathoverflow, Stanley provided an example of a non-Ehrhart-positive order polytope of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Fu Liu , Akiyoshi Tsuchiya

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

We show that the multivariate generating function of appropriately normalized moments of a measure with homogeneous polynomial density supported on a compact polytope P in R^d is a rational function. Its denominator is the product of linear…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Nick Gravin , Dmitrii V. Pasechnik , Boris Shapiro , Michael Shapiro

We generalize Ehrhart's idea of counting lattice points in dilated rational polytopes: Given a rational simplex, that is, an n-dimensional polytope with n+1 rational vertices, we use its description as the intersection of n+1 halfspaces,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Matthias Beck

We study generating functions of strict and non-strict order polynomials of series-parallel posets, called order series. These order series are closely related to Ehrhart series and h*-polynomials of the associated order polytopes. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Jose Antonio Arciniega-Nevarez , Marko Berghoff , Eric Dolores-Cuenca

This paper studies three different ways to assign weights to the lattice points of a convex polytope and discusses the algebraic and combinatorial properties of the resulting weighted Ehrhart functions and their generating functions and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Jesus A. De Loera , Carlos E. Valencia , Rafael H. Villarreal , Chengyang Wang

We prove that for any fixed d the generating function of the projection of the set of integer points in a rational d-dimensional polytope can be computed in polynomial time. As a corollary, we deduce that various interesting sets of lattice…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Barvinok , Kevin Woods

In this paper we consider the density of rational points on the "stacky" curve $\mathcal{X}(\mathbb{P}^1;0,2;1,2;\infty,2)$ which is $\mathbb{P}^1$ with three half points, with respect to the so-called Ellenberg-Satriano-Zuerick-Brown…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-13 Brett Nasserden , Stanley Yao Xiao

For $q$ a prime power and $\phi$ a rational function with coefficients in $\mathbb{F}_q$, let $p(q,\phi)$ be the proportion of $\mathbb{P}^1(\mathbb{F}_q)$ that is periodic with respect to $\phi$. And if $d$ is a positive integer, let $Q_d$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Derek Garton

We show that the generating function corresponding to the sequence of denominators of the best rational approximants of a quadratic irrational is a rational function with integer coefficients. Consequently we can compute the L\'evy constant…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-03 Anna Belova , Peter Hazard

Let $n,p,k$ be three positive integers. We prove that the rational fractions of $q$: $${n \brack k}_{q} {}_3\phi_{2} [ . {matrix}q^{1-k},q^{-p},q^{p-n} q,q^{1-n} {matrix}| q;q^{k+1}]\quad\textrm{and}\quad q^{(n-p)p}\qbi{n}{k}{q} {}_3\phi_2[…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sharon J. X. Hou , Jiang Zeng

Let a polyhedron $P$ be defined by one of the following ways: (i) $P = \{x \in R^n \colon A x \leq b\}$, where $A \in Z^{(n+k) \times n}$, $b \in Z^{(n+k)}$ and $rank\, A = n$; (ii) $P = \{x \in R_+^n \colon A x = b\}$, where $A \in Z^{k…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-11-30 D. V. Gribanov , N. Yu. Zolotykh

We apply an inductive argument to three theorems of Cantor on (1) the uncountability of infinite binary sequences, (2) the uncountability of real numbers, and (3) the non-equinumerosity of sets with their powersets. This technique proves…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Saeed Salehi

This paper is to study the Ehrhart function $L(P,t)$ of a rational $n$-polytope $P$, defined as the number of lattice points of dilated polytopes $tP$ with real numbers $t\geq 0$. It turns out that $L(P,t)$ is a quasi-polynomial of real…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Ying Cao , Beifang Chen

In this paper we go on to discuss about Stanley's theorem in Integer partitions. We give two different versions for the proof of the generalization of Stanley's theorem illustrating different techniques that may be applied to profitably…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-07 Suprokash Hazra

This paper proves four conjectured generating series, due to Chapoton, which concern invariants of posets and polytopes associated with a specific sequence of arbors. Two of these conjectures provide closed-form formulas for the generating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Feihu Liu , Jinlong Tang

Given two coprime integers $p\ge 2$ and $q \ge 3$, let $D_p\subset[0,1)$ consist of all rational numbers which have a finite $p$-ary expansion, and let $$ K(q, \mathcal{A})=\bigg\{ \sum_{i=1}^\infty \frac{d_i}{q^i}: d_i\in \mathcal{A}~…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Kan Jiang , Derong Kong , Wenxia Li , Zhiqiang Wang

Numbers are often used to define more complicated numbers. For example, two integers are used to define a rational number and two reals are used to define a complex number. It might be expected that an irrational power of an irrational…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2015-10-28 Anca Andrei

In 1999, Neil Calkin and Herbert Wilf wrote "Recounting the rationals" which gave an explicit bijection between the positive integers and the positive rationals. We find several different (some new) ways to construct this enumeration and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Sam Northshield