Interpolating between volume and lattice point enumerator with successive minima (Q2155979): Difference between revisions

Denote by \(\mathcal{K}^n\) the set of all non-empty compact convex sets in \(\mathbb{R}^n\), and let \(K\in\mathcal{K}^n\), satsify the symmetry condition about the origin \(K=-K\). Define the \(i\)th successive minima such that \[ \lambda_i(K)=\min\{\lambda>0:\dim(\lambda K \cap \mathbb{Z}^n\geq i\},\quad 1\leq i \leq n, \] and set \(|G(K)=K\cap \mathbb{Z}^n|\), so that \(G(K)\) is the lattice point enumerator of \(K\) in \(\mathbb{R}^n\). In this paper the authors investigate the classical problem of relations between the discrete volume \(G(K)\), the continuous volume vol(\(K\)), and the successive minima \(\lambda_i=\lambda_i(K)\) of a convex body \(K\). In Theorem 1.1 they show that \[ G(K)\leq \text{vol}(K)\prod_{i=1}^n\left (1+\frac{n\lambda_i}{2}\right ), \] and for \(\lambda_n\leq \frac{2}{n}\), that \[ G(K)\geq \text{vol}(K)\prod_{i=1}^n\left (1-\frac{n\lambda_i}{2}\right ). \] Applying a result of Minkowski, then yields the corollary \[ G(K)\leq \prod_{i=1}^n\left (\frac{2}{\lambda_i}+n\right ). \] Further results are obtained and an equivalence for Minkowski's second theorem on successive minima in convex bodies deduced.