Counting parallel segments: new variants of Pick's area theorem

DOI10.1007/S00283-019-09921-8MaRDI QIDQ2278752zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander G. Belyaev, Pierre-Alain Fayolle

Publication date 10 December 2019

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-019-09921-8

zbMATH Keywords

Pick's area theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Length, area and volume in real or complex geometry (51M25) Length, area, volume and convex sets (aspects of convex geometry) (52A38) Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20)

Review text

This paper presents new formulas for the area of a lattice polygon and a lattice polyhedron. In the two dimensional case, the formula for the area \(A(P)\) of a polygon \(P\) is \(A(P)=w+\frac{p}{2}+\frac{b}{2}\), where \(w\), \(b\), and \(p\) denote the numbers of whole, boundary, and partial segments. A lattice segment is the segment connecting two lattice points belonging to the lattice graph and containing no other lattice points. A whole segment is a lattice segment situated, possibly without its endpoints, in the interior of \(P\); a boundary segment is a lattice segment that belongs to \(\partial P\); a partial segment is a lattice segment that crosses \(\partial P\) and whose intersection with the interior of \(P\) is not empty. For three dimensions a similar formula, based on segments, is conjectured. The bibliography misses the treasure trove of higher-dimensional Pick-like formulas gathered in [\textit{K. Kołodziejczyk} and \textit{J. Reay}, Expo. Math. 26, No. 1, 41--53 (2008; Zbl 1137.52005)].

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