The face-number conjecture for perfect prismatoids

Let PP be a dd-dimensional perfect prismatoid. A dd-dimensional lattice Delaunay polytope is a convex polytope whose vertices belong to a lattice and which is the convex hull of the lattice points lying on an empty sphere. For each kk with 0kd0\leq k\leq d, let fk(P)f_k(P) denote the number of kk-dimensional faces of PP. The conjecture concerns the existence of a lattice Delaunay polytope QQ of dimension dd satisfying the following inequalities.

Face-number conjecture. For every dd-dimensional perfect prismatoid PP, there exists a dd-dimensional lattice Delaunay polytope QQ such that

fk(P)fk(Q)f_k(P)\geq f_k(Q)

for every kk with 0kd0\leq k\leq d.

This is a proposed strengthening of the comparison between perfect prismatoids and lattice Delaunay polytopes in terms of all face numbers. The supplied source context does not establish whether the conjecture is open or resolved.

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Marina Kozachok and Alexander Magazinov, “Perfect prismatoids are lattice Delaunay polytopes”, arXiv:1405.7954 (2014).

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