The neatness conjecture for smooth lattice polytopes

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Let P⊂RnP\subset\mathbb{R}^n be a smooth lattice polytope. Write PP by integral inequalities Ax⩽cAx\leqslant c, and for b∈Zmb\in\mathbb{Z}^m define its displacement by

Pb:={x∈Rn:Ax⩽c+b}.P_b:=\{x\in\mathbb{R}^n:Ax\leqslant c+b\}.

The polytope PP is neat if whenever PbP_b and P−bP_{-b} are normally isomorphic to PP, one has

Pb∩(−P−b)∩Zn≠∅.P_b\cap(-P_{-b})\cap\mathbb{Z}^n\ne\varnothing.

Neatness conjecture. All smooth lattice polytopes are neat.

The conjecture is motivated by the equivalence between neatness and preservation of weak or star Ewald conditions for lattice smooth bundles. The source explains that Oda's conjecture would imply neatness for all smooth lattice polytopes containing the origin, but the stronger assertion that every smooth lattice polytope is neat remains open.

References

Primary source

Luis Crespo, Álvaro Pelayo and Francisco Santos, “Ewald's Conjecture and integer points in algebraic and symplectic toric geometry”, arXiv:2310.10366 (2024).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1405.3436.

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