Lattice 3-polytopes with six lattice points

DOI10.1137/15M1014462zbMath1342.52013arXiv1501.01055OpenAlexW2018441586MaRDI QIDQ161309

Francisco Santos, Mónica Blanco Gómez, Mónica Blanco

Publication date: 6 January 2015

Published in: SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We classify lattice $3$-polytopes of width larger than one and with exactly $6$ lattice points. We show that there are $74$ polytopes of width $2$, two polytopes of width $3$, and none of larger width. We give explicit coordinates for representatives of each class, together with other invariants such as their oriented matroid (or order type) and volume vector. For example, according to the number of interior points these $76$ polytopes divide into $23$ tetrahedra with two interior points (clean tetrahedra), $49$ polytopes with one interior point (the $49$ canonical three-polytopes with five boundary points previously classified by Kasprzyk) and only $4$ hollow polytopes. We also give a complete classification of three-polytopes of width one with $6$ lattice points. In terms of the oriented matroid of these six points, they lie in eight infinite classes and twelve individual polytopes. Our motivation comes partly from the concept of distinct pair sum (or dps) polytopes, which, in dimension $3$, can have at most $8$ lattice points. Among the $74+2$ classes mentioned above, exactly $44 + 1$ are dps.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01055

zbMATH Keywords

lattice pointslattice polytopesunimodular equivalence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Three-dimensional polytopes (52B10) Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20)

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