Lower bounds on the coefficients of Ehrhart polynomials

نویسندگان

  • Martin Henk
  • Makoto Tagami
چکیده

We present lower bounds for the coefficients of Ehrhart polynomials of convex lattice polytopes in terms of their volume. We also introduce two formulas for calculating the Ehrhart series of a kind of a ”weak” free sum of two lattice polytopes and of integral dilates of a polytope. As an application of these formulas we show that Hibi’s lower bound on the coefficients of the Ehrhart series is not true for lattice polytopes without interior lattice points.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Eur. J. Comb.

دوره 30  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009