Betke-Henk-Wills conjecture on lattice point enumerators

Let K0d\mathcal{K}^d_0 be the set of oo-symmetric convex bodies in Rd\mathbb{R}^d, let Ld\mathcal{L}^d be the space of full-rank lattices, and for KK0dK\in\mathcal{K}^d_0 and ΛLd\Lambda\in\mathcal{L}^d let

G(K,Λ)=KΛ,G(K,\Lambda)=|K\cap\Lambda|,

with successive minima

λi(K,Λ)=inf{λ>0:dim(λKΛ)i},1id.\lambda_i(K,\Lambda)=\inf\{\lambda>0:\dim(\lambda K\cap\Lambda)\geq i\},\qquad 1\leq i\leq d.

Betke-Henk-Wills conjecture. For any KK0dK\in\mathcal{K}^d_0 and ΛLd\Lambda\in\mathcal{L}^d,

G(K,Λ)i=1d2λi(K,Λ)+1.G(K,\Lambda)\leq\prod_{i=1}^d\left\lfloor\frac{2}{\lambda_i(K,\Lambda)}+1\right\rfloor.

The conjecture is a discrete analogue of Minkowski's Second Theorem, seeking to bound the global lattice point count using the successive minima. It is established for orthogonal parallelotopes but remains unresolved for d5d\geq5 and general convex bodies.

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Primary source

Chao Wang, “Local Stability and Quantitative Bounds for the Betke-Henk-Wills Conjecture”, arXiv:2603.00007 (2026).

Additional references

6 papers in this index state this conjecture (2002–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2602.06662, arXiv:2304.00120, arXiv:2105.13090, arXiv:2005.02234, arXiv:math/0204158.

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