Concentration of lattice polytopes near the boundary volume

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Let BrdB_r^d be the convex body used in the paper, and let HrdH_r^d be the set of lattice polytopes contained in BrdB_r^d, with Hrd(V/d!vol(Brd)c(r))H_r^d(V/d!\geqslant\mathrm{vol}(B_r^d)-c(r)) denoting the subset whose volume is at least vol(Brd)c(r)\mathrm{vol}(B_r^d)-c(r). Then the boundary-volume concentration conjecture. There exists a function c(r)=o(rd)c(r)=o(r^d) such that

limrlogHrd(V/d!vol(Brd)c(r))logHrd=1.\lim_{r\rightarrow\infty}\frac{\log |H_r^d\left(V/d!\geqslant \mathrm{vol}(B_r^d)-c(r)\right)|}{\log H_r^d}=1.

This predicts that, logarithmically, almost all lattice polytopes in BrdB_r^d have volume within c(r)c(r) of the volume of BrdB_r^d. The preceding results establish many such polytopes and indicate that the containment constraint has little effect on the logarithmic order, but the conjecture itself is unresolved in the supplied text.

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Zhanyuan Cai, Yuqin Zhang and Qiuyue Liu, “On the classification of lattice polytopes via affine equivalence”, arXiv:2409.09985 (2024).

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