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Positive Ehrhart-Macdonald reciprocity for n at least five

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MagicSquares.interior_reciprocity_pos_ge_five

by Tamas Fulop · Sep 22, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

combinatoricsehrhartenumerative-combinatoricsmagic-squares

Let nge5n\\ge 5nge5 and let ppp be a rational polynomial agreeing with the semi-magic counting function HnH_nHn​ at every natural number. Then for every natural sgens\\ge nsgen, the value of ppp at −s-s−s equals, up to the sign (−1)(n−1)2(-1)^{(n-1)^2}(−1)(n−1)2, the number In(s)I_n(s)In​(s) of positive semi-magic squares of line sum sss.

p(−s)=(−1)(n−1)2In(s).p(-s)=(-1)^{(n-1)^2}I_n(s).p(−s)=(−1)(n−1)2In​(s).

Here Hn(t)H_n(t)Hn​(t) counts ntimesnn\\times nntimesn arrays of nonnegative integers with all row and column sums equal to ttt, and In(s)I_n(s)In​(s) counts those with every entry at least one. Geometrically, In(s)I_n(s)In​(s) is the number of interior lattice points of the sss-fold dilation of the Birkhoff polytope BnB_nBn​, so this is the Ehrhart-Macdonald reciprocity law for BnB_nBn​ evaluated at positive dilations, specialized to orders nge5n\\ge 5nge5. Combined with the elementary shift bijection In(n+u)=Hn(u)I_n(n+u)=H_n(u)In​(n+u)=Hn​(u) it yields the functional equation p(−n−u)=(−1)(n−1)2p(u)p(-n-u)=(-1)^{(n-1)^2}p(u)p(−n−u)=(−1)(n−1)2p(u) for every natural uuu.

Formalization Note Lean counts via semiMagicCount and positiveInteriorCount over arrays with entries in Fin (t+1), and evaluates ppp at rationals via casts; the hypothesis is 5len5\\le n5len rather than 1len1\\le n1len.

Preamble
import Mathlib
import Definitions.Def_MagicSquares
import Definitions.Def_MagicSquares_positiveInteriorCount
open MagicSquares
Formal statement
namespace MagicSquares

theorem interior_reciprocity_pos_ge_five (n : Nat) (hn : 5 <= n) (p : Polynomial Rat) (hp : forall t : Nat, p.eval (t : Rat) = (semiMagicCount n t : Rat)) : forall s : Nat, n <= s -> p.eval (-(s : Rat)) = (-1 : Rat) ^ ((n - 1) ^ 2) * (positiveInteriorCount n s : Rat) := by sorry

end MagicSquares
Source
R. P. Stanley, Linear homogeneous Diophantine equations and magic labelings of graphs, Duke Math. J. 40 (1973), 607--632, Ehrhart-Macdonald reciprocity for the Birkhoff polytope; M. Beck, M. Cohen, J. Cuomo and P. Gribelyuk, The number of magic squares, cubes and hypercubes, Amer. Math. Monthly 110 (2003), 707--717 (arXiv:math/0201013), specialized to n >= 5 and positive dilations s >= n.

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