A Blichfeldt-type inequality for the surface area

DOI10.1007/S00605-008-0530-8zbMATH Open1163.52002arXiv0705.2088OpenAlexW2055225300MaRDI QIDQ1018010FDOQ1018010

Authors: Martin Henk, Jörg M. Wills 

Publication date: 13 May 2009

Published in: Monatshefte für Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In 1921 Blichfeldt gave an upper bound on the number of integral points contained in a convex body in terms of the volume of the body. More precisely, he showed that $$, whenever $Ksubset{R}^n$ is a convex body containing $n+1$ affinely independent integral points. Here we prove an analogous inequality with respect to the surface area $F(K)$, namely $$. The proof is based on a slight improvement of Blichfeldt's bound in the case when $K$ is a non-lattice translate of a lattice polytope, i.e., $K=t+P$, where $$ and $P$ is an $n$-dimensional polytope with integral vertices. Then we have $$. Moreover, in the 3-dimensional case we prove a stronger inequality, namely $$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.2088

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zbMATH Keywords

lattice polytopes, volume, surface area

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20) Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20) Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40)

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