Unimodular triangulations of dilated 3-polytopes

DOI10.1090/S0077-1554-2014-00220-XzbMATH Open1303.52007arXiv1304.7296OpenAlexW2023110365MaRDI QIDQ2930864FDOQ2930864

Authors: Günter M. Ziegler, Francisco Santos 

Publication date: 20 November 2014

Published in: Transactions of the Moscow Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A seminal result in the theory of toric varieties, due to Knudsen, Mumford and Waterman (1973), asserts that for every lattice polytope $P$ there is a positive integer $k$ such that the dilated polytope $kP$ has a unimodular triangulation. In dimension 3, Kantor and Sarkaria (2003) have shown that $k=4$ works for every polytope. But this does not imply that every $k>4$ works as well. We here study the values of $k$ for which the result holds showing that: 1. It contains all composite numbers. 2. It is an additive semigroup. These two properties imply that the only values of $k$ that may not work (besides 1 and 2, which are known not to work) are $kin3,5,7,11$. With an ad-hoc construction we show that $k=7$ and $k=11$ also work, except in this case the triangulation cannot be guaranteed to be "standard" in the boundary. All in all, the only open cases are $k=3$ and $k=5$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.7296

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zbMATH Keywords

lattice polytopesunimodular triangulationsKKMS theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20)

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