Short rational generating functions for lattice point problems
Short rational generating functions for lattice point problems
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格点问题的短有理生成函数
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2002
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Kevin M. Woods
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A. Barvinok;Kevin M. Woods
Abstract. We prove that for any fixed d the generating function of the projectionof the set of integer points in a rational d-dimensional polytope can be computed inpolynomial time. As a corollary, we deduce that various interesting sets of latticepoints, notably integer semigroups and (minimal) Hilbert bases of rational cones,have short rational generating functions provided certain parameters (the dimensionand the number of generators) are fixed. It follows then that many computationalproblems for such sets (for example, finding the number of positive integers notrepresentable as a non-negative integer combination of given coprime positive integersa 1 ,... ,a d ) admit polynomial time algorithms. We also discuss a related problem ofcomputing the Hilbert series of a ring generated by monomials. 1. Introduction and Main ResultsOur main motivation is the following question which goes back to Frobenius andSylvester.(1.1) The Frobenius Problem. Let a 1 ,... ,a d be positive coprime integers andletS =nµ