Ehrhart's volume conjecture for lattice-free centered convex bodies

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Let K⊂RdK \subset \mathbb{R}^d be a convex body with centroid 0\boldsymbol{0} and no nonzero lattice point in its interior:

int⁡(K)∩Zd=0.\operatorname{int}(K)\cap\mathbb{Z}^d=\\{\boldsymbol{0}\\}.

Let Sd=(d+1)conv⁡0,e1,…,ed−1S_d=(d+1)\operatorname{conv}\\{\boldsymbol{0},\boldsymbol{e}_1,\ldots,\boldsymbol{e}_d\\}-\boldsymbol{1}.

Ehrhart's volume conjecture. One should have

vol⁡(K)≤vol⁡(Sd)=(d+1)dd!.\operatorname{vol}(K)\leq\operatorname{vol}(S_d)=\frac{(d+1)^d}{d!}.

This is the volume analogue related to the preceding lattice-point conjecture and is attributed in the source to Ehrhart. The simplex SdS_d gives the proposed extremal example; the source does not indicate a resolution.

References

Primary source

Sören Lennart Berg and Martin Henk, “Lattice point inequalities for centered convex bodies”, arXiv:1505.06444 (2015).

Additional references

6 papers in this index state this conjecture (2009–2015). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1405.4993, arXiv:1205.1270, arXiv:1204.1308, arXiv:1112.4445, arXiv:0905.2054.

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