The triangulations of point configurations which decompose as a free sum are classified in terms of the triangulations of the summands. The methods employ two new partially ordered sets associated with any triangulation of a point set with one marked point, the web of stars and the stabbing poset. Triangulations of smooth Fano polytopes are discussed as a case study.

The main purpose of this paper is to report on the state of the art of computing integer hulls and their facets as well as counting lattice points in convex polytopes. Using the polymake system we explore various algorithms and implementations. Our experience in this area is summarized in ten “rules of thumb”.

The classification of toric Fano manifolds with large Picard number corresponds to the classification of smooth Fano polytopes with large number of vertices. A smooth Fano polytope is a polytope that contains the origin in its interior such that the vertex set of each facet forms a lattice basis. Casagrande showed that any smooth $d$-dimensional Fano polytope has at most $3d$ vertices. Smooth Fano polytopes in dimension $d$ with at least $3d-2$ vertices are completely known. The main result of this paper deals with the case of $3d-k$ vertices for $k$ fixed and $d$ large. It implies that there is only a finite number of isomorphism classes of toric Fano $d$-folds $X$ (for arbitrary $d$) with Picard number $2d-k$ such that $X$ is not a product of a lower-dimensional toric Fano manifold and the projective plane blown up in three torus-invariant points. This verifies the qualitative part of a conjecture in a recent paper by the first author, Joswig, and Paffenholz.

The classification of toric Fano manifolds with large Picard number corresponds to the classification of smooth Fano polytopes with large number of vertices. A smooth Fano polytope is a polytope that contains the origin in its interior such that the vertex set of each facet forms a lattice basis. Casagrande showed that any smooth $d$-dimensional Fano polytope has at most $3d$ vertices. Smooth Fano polytopes in dimension $d$ with at least $3d-2$ vertices are completely known. The main result of this paper deals with the case of $3d-k$ vertices for $k$ fixed and $d$ large. It implies that there is only a finite number of isomorphism classes of toric Fano $d$-folds $X$ (for arbitrary $d$) with Picard number $2d-k$ such that $X$ is not a product of a lower-dimensional toric Fano manifold and the projective plane blown up in three torus-invariant points. This verifies the qualitative part of a conjecture in a recent paper by the first author, Joswig, and Paffenholz.

The d -dimensional simplicial, terminal, and reflexive polytopes with at least 3d-2 vertices are classified. In particular, it turns out that all of them are smooth Fano polytopes. This improves on previous results of Casagrande (Ann Inst Fourier (Grenoble) 56(1):121–130, 2006 ) and Øbro (Manuscr Math 125(1): 69–79, 2008 ). Smooth Fano polytopes play a role in algebraic geometry and mathematical physics.

The main purpose of this paper is to report on the state of the art of computing integer hulls and their facets as well as counting lattice points in convex polytopes. Using the polymake system we explore various algorithms and implementations. Our experience in this area is summarized in ten rules of thumb.

The $d$-dimensional simplicial, terminal, and reflexive polytopes with at least $3d-2$ vertices are classified. In particular, it turns out that all of them are smooth Fano polytopes. This improves previous results of Casagrande (2006) and Øbro (2008). Smooth Fano polytopes play a role in algebraic geometry and mathematical physics. This text is an extended abstract of Assarf et al. (2012). Nous classifions les polytopes simpliciaux, terminaux et réflexifs de dimension $d$ avec au moins $3d-2$ sommets. En particulier, tous ces polytopes se trouvent être des polytopes de Fano lisses. Nous améliorons des résultats antérieurs de Casagrande (2006) et d’Øbro (2008). Les polytopes de Fano lisses apparaissent en géométrie algébrique et en physique mathématique. Ce texte est un résumé étendu de Assarf et al. (2012).