Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4648532 | Discrete Mathematics | 2011 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Minkowski’s second theorem on successive minima gives an upper bound on the volume of a convex body in terms of its successive minima. We study the problem to generalize Minkowski’s bound by replacing the volume by the lattice point enumerator of a convex body. In this context we are interested in bounds on the coefficients of Ehrhart polynomials of lattice polytopes via the successive minima. Our results for lattice zonotopes and lattice-face polytopes imply, in particular, that for 0-symmetric lattice-face polytopes and lattice parallelepipeds the volume can be replaced by the lattice point enumerator.
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Authors
Christian Bey, Martin Henk, Matthias Henze, Eva Linke,