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Lorentzian Lattices And E-Polytopes, Adrian Clingher, Jae-Hyouk Lee
Lorentzian Lattices And E-Polytopes, Adrian Clingher, Jae-Hyouk Lee
Adrian Clingher
We consider certain En-type root lattices embedded within the standard Lorentzian lattice Z n+1 (3 ≤ n ≤ 8) and study their discrete geometry from the point of view of del Pezzo surface geometry. The lattice Z n+1 decomposes as a disjoint union of affine hyperplanes which satisfy a certain periodicity. We introduce the notions of line vectors, rational conic vectors, and rational cubics vectors and their relations to E-polytopes. We also discuss the relation between these special vectors and the combinatorics of the Gosset polytopes of type (n − 4)21.