Theorems of Brion, Lawrence, and Varchenko on rational generating functions for cones

M. Beck, Ch. Haase, and F. Sottile.

We discuss and give elementary proofs of results of Brion and of Lawrence--Varchenko on the lattice-point enumerator generating functions for polytopes and cones. This largely expository note contains a new proof of Brion's Formula using irrational decompositions, and a generalization of the Lawrence--Varchenko formula.



The manuscript in postscript, and in pdf.
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