Piecewise‐exponential functions and Ehrhart fans
Melody Chan, Emily Clader, Caroline Klivans, Dustin Ross
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Abstract This paper studies rings of integral piecewise‐exponential functions on rational fans. Motivated by lattice‐point counting in polytopes, we introduce a special class of unimodular fans called Ehrhart fans, whose rings of integral piecewise‐exponential functions admit a canonical linear functional that behaves like a lattice‐point count. In particular, we verify that all complete unimodular fans are Ehrhart and that the Ehrhart functional agrees with lattice‐point counting in corresponding polytopes, which can otherwise be interpreted as holomorphic Euler characteristics of vector bundles on smooth toric varieties. We also prove that all Bergman fans of matroids are Ehrhart and that the Ehrhart functional in this case agrees with the Euler characteristic of matroids, introduced recently by Larson, Li, Payne, and Proudfoot. A key property that we prove about the Ehrharticity of fans is that it only depends on the support of the fan, not on the fan structure, thus providing a uniform framework for studying ‐rings and Euler characteristics of complete fans and Bergman fans simultaneously.
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