On a Hadwiger-Wills inequality concerning lattice points (Q1591724)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1549694
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On a Hadwiger-Wills inequality concerning lattice points
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1549694

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    On a Hadwiger-Wills inequality concerning lattice points (English)
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    9 January 2001
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    For the lattice point enumerator \(G(P)\) of a lattice polygon \(P\) and its translate \(P+t\), where \(t\) is not a lattice point, one has the inequality \(G(P)-G(P+t)\geq\chi(P)\), where \(\chi\) denotes the Euler characteristic. This inequality is tight and was proved by H. Hadwiger and J. M. Wills in 1975. The author shows that this inequality can be generalized to planar and appropriate nonplanar lattice polygons in \(N\)-space \(\mathbb{R}^N\). He further shows that on the other hand the inequality can not be generalized to lattice polyhedra.
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    lattice polygon
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    lattice point
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    Euler characteristic
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