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arxiv: 1808.00146 · v1 · pith:XMF7W6SPnew · submitted 2018-08-01 · 🧮 math.CO · math.MG

New irrational polygons with Ehrhart-theoretic period collapse

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In a recent paper, Cristofaro-Gardiner--Li--Stanley [CGLS15] constructed examples of irrational triangles whose Ehrhart functions (i.e. lattice-point count) are polynomials when restricted to positive integer dilation factors. This is very surprising because the Ehrhart functions of rational polygons are usually only quasi-polynomials. We demonstrate that most of their triangles can also be obtained by a simple cut-and-paste procedure that allows us to build new examples with more sides. Our examples might potentially have applications in the theory of symplectic embeddings.

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