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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

Let $\mathcal{P} \subseteq \mathbb{R}^{n}$ be a polytope whose vertices have rational coordinates. By a seminal result of E. Ehrhart, the number of integer lattice points in the $k$th dilate of $\mathcal{P}$ ($k$ a positive integer) is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Tyrrell B. McAllister , Hélène O. Rochais

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

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

We express the generating function for lattice points in a rational polyhedral cone with a simplicial subdivision in terms of multivariate analogues of the h-polynomials of the subdivision and "local contributions" of the links of its…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-12-07 Sam Payne

In this paper we are constructing integer lattice squares, cubes or hypercubes in $\mathbb R^d$ with $d\in \{2,3,4\}$. For squares and cubes we find a complete description of their Ehrhart polynomial. For hypercubes, we compute one of the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-18 Eugen J. Ionascu

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

This article concerns the computational problem of counting the lattice points inside convex polytopes, when each point must be counted with a weight associated to it. We describe an efficient algorithm for computing the highest degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-09 Velleda Baldoni , Nicole Berline , Jesús A. De Loera , Matthias Köppe , Michèle Vergne

This paper initiates the explicit study of face numbers of matroid polytopes and their computation. We prove that, for the large class of split matroid polytopes, their face numbers depend solely on the number of cyclic flats of each rank…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Luis Ferroni , Benjamin Schröter

In earlier work in collaboration with Pavel Galashin and Thomas McConville we introduced a version of chip-firing for root systems. Our investigation of root system chip-firing led us to define certain polynomials analogous to Ehrhart…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Sam Hopkins , Alexander Postnikov

This paper investigates the problem of listing faces of combinatorial polytopes, such as hypercubes, permutahedra, associahedra, and their generalizations. Firstly, we consider the face lattice, which is the inclusion order of all faces of…

In this paper we calculate the Ehrhart's polynomial associated with a 2-dimensional regular polytope (i.e. equilateral triangles) in $\mathbb Z^3$. The polynomial takes a relatively simple form in terms of the coordinates of the vertices of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-07-12 Eugen J. Ionascu

For a given lattice polytope, two fundamental problems within the field of Ehrhart theory are to (1) determine if its (Ehrhart) $h^\ast$-polynomial is unimodal and (2) to determine if its Ehrhart polynomial has only positive coefficients.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Fu Liu , Liam Solus

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

In this paper we investigate the number of integer points lying in dilations of lattice path matroid polytopes. We give a characterization of such points as polygonal paths in the diagram of the lattice path matroid. Furthermore, we prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-26 Kolja Knauer , Leonardo Martínez-Sandoval , Jorge Luis Ramírez Alfonsín

In a d-simplex every facet is a (d-1)-simplex. We consider as generalized simplices other combinatorial classes of polytopes, all of whose facets are in the class. Cubes and multiplexes are two such classes of generalized simplices. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Margaret M. Bayer , Tibor Bisztriczky

We present a common generalization of counting lattice points in rational polytopes and the enumeration of proper graph colorings, nowhere-zero flows on graphs, magic squares and graphs, antimagic squares and graphs, compositions of an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-01-24 Matthias Beck , Thomas Zaslavsky

We show that the number of lattice points in the boundary of a positive integer dilate of a Delzant integral polytope is a polynomial in the dilation parameter, analogous to the Ehrhart polynomial giving the number of lattice points in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Jonathan Weitsman

Gathering different results from singularity theory, geometry and combinatorics, we show that the spectrum at infinity of a tame Laurent polynomial counts lattice points in polytopes and we deduce an effective algorithm in order to compute…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Antoine Douai

Let $V$ be a real vector space of dimension $n$ and let $M\subset V$ be a lattice. Let $P\subset V$ be an $n$-dimensional polytope with vertices in $M$, and let $\varphi\colon V\rightarrow \CC $ be a homogeneous polynomial function of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Matthias Beck , Paul E. Gunnells , Evgeny Materov