Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Santos asked when intersections of dilated Hadamard simplices with cubes are integral, smooth, or normal, in a prescribed affine lattice. We construct a nonintegral example in dimension eleven and prove that no smaller-dimensional example exists. We characterize smoothness completely and show that every smooth member of this family is normal. An explicit example in dimension fifteen shows that integrality alone does not imply normality. For Sylvester simplices of order at least sixteen, we establish a sharp uniform integrality bound and construct counterexamples immediately below it. We also obtain sufficient normality bounds for general Hadamard simplices and stronger bounds for the Sylvester family. The proofs use integer decomposition for boxes with separated corner cuts and rounding under three signed slab constraints. All numbered results have formal counterparts verified in Lean.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Author: Lebedev, Nikita
Language: English
Subfield: Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7214699682