Oda's conjectures on integer decomposition properties of smooth polytopes

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Let a lattice polytope be smooth if at every vertex it has exactly nn edges whose primitive edge vectors form a lattice basis. A lattice polytope PP has the integer decomposition property (IDP) if, for every integer k1k\geq 1, every lattice point of kPkP is a sum of kk lattice points of PP. Two lattice polytopes PP and QQ form an IDP pair if

(P+Q)Zn=(PZn)+(QZn).(P+Q)\cap\mathbb{Z}^n=(P\cap\mathbb{Z}^n)+(Q\cap\mathbb{Z}^n).

Oda's conjectures. The following two statements are true: (1) every smooth polytope has the IDP; and (2) if P,QRnP,Q\subset\mathbb{R}^n are smooth polytopes and the normal fan of PP refines the normal fan of QQ, then PP and QQ form an IDP pair.

These conjectures concern lattice-point decompositions and, equivalently, projective normality of the associated projective toric varieties. The source presents them as questions raised by Tadao Oda; no resolution status is supplied here.

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Primary source

Binnan Tu, “Oda's conjecture for reflexive polytopes: some special cases”, arXiv:2511.04322 (2025).

Additional references

11 papers in this index state this conjecture (2007–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2510.05076, arXiv:2010.13617, arXiv:1908.01415, arXiv:1907.12312, arXiv:1906.01469, arXiv:1811.03357, arXiv:1804.10538, arXiv:1204.6680, arXiv:1103.5895, arXiv:0711.4393.

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