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On the volume and projection of convex sets containing no lattice points

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

P. R. Scott
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia.
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Abstract

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A convex body K in En containing no lattice points, has one-deimensional projections of lengths X1, X2, …, Xn on the coordinate axes. We show that for n2 and 1Xin/(n1) (1in),

and this bound can not be improved.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1985

References

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