R. P. Stanley proved the Upper Bound Conjecture in 1975. We imitate his proof for the Ehrhart rings.
We give some upper bounds for the volume of integrally closed lattice polytopes. We derive some inequalities for the δ-vector of integrally closed lattice polytopes. Finally we apply our results for reflexive integrally closed and order polytopes.
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