Few smooth d-polytopes with n lattice points

Tristram Bogart, Christian Haase, Milena Hering, Benjamin Lorenz, Benjamin Nill, Andreas Paffenholz, Günter Rote, Francisco Santos, Hal Schenck

Published 2010-10-19, updated 2013-07-17Version 2

We prove that, for fixed n there exist only finitely many embeddings of Q-factorial toric varieties X into P^n that are induced by a complete linear system. The proof is based on a combinatorial result that for fixed nonnegative integers d and n, there are only finitely many smooth d-polytopes with n lattice points. We also enumerate all smooth 3-polytopes with at most 12 lattice points. In fact, it is sufficient to bound the singularities and the number of lattice points on edges to prove finiteness.