Ehrhart non-positivity and unimodular triangulations for classes of s-lecture hall simplices

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Main Authors: Caicedo, Jhon B., Juhnke, Martina, Poullot, Germain
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author Caicedo, Jhon B.
Juhnke, Martina
Poullot, Germain
author_facet Caicedo, Jhon B.
Juhnke, Martina
Poullot, Germain
contents Counting lattice points and triangulating polytopes is a prominent subject in discrete geometry, yet proving Ehrhart positivity or existence of unimodular triangulations remain of utmost difficulty in general, even for ``easy'' simplices. We study these questions for classes of s-lecture hall simplices. Inspired by a question of Olsen, we present a new natural class of sequences s for which the s-lecture hall simplices are not Ehrhart positive, by explicitly estimating a negative coefficient. Meanwhile, motivated by a conjecture of Hibi, Olsen and Tsuchiya, we extend the previously known classes of sequences s for which the s-lecture hall simplex admits a flag, regular and unimodular triangulation. The triangulations we construct are explicit.
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spellingShingle Ehrhart non-positivity and unimodular triangulations for classes of s-lecture hall simplices
Caicedo, Jhon B.
Juhnke, Martina
Poullot, Germain
Combinatorics
52B20, 52B05, 52B11
Counting lattice points and triangulating polytopes is a prominent subject in discrete geometry, yet proving Ehrhart positivity or existence of unimodular triangulations remain of utmost difficulty in general, even for ``easy'' simplices. We study these questions for classes of s-lecture hall simplices. Inspired by a question of Olsen, we present a new natural class of sequences s for which the s-lecture hall simplices are not Ehrhart positive, by explicitly estimating a negative coefficient. Meanwhile, motivated by a conjecture of Hibi, Olsen and Tsuchiya, we extend the previously known classes of sequences s for which the s-lecture hall simplex admits a flag, regular and unimodular triangulation. The triangulations we construct are explicit.
title Ehrhart non-positivity and unimodular triangulations for classes of s-lecture hall simplices
topic Combinatorics
52B20, 52B05, 52B11
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18890