Stringy $E$-functions of canonical toric Fano threefolds and their applications

Abstract

Let $\Delta$ be a $3$-dimensional lattice polytope containing exactly one interior lattice point. We give a simple combinatorial formula for computing the stringy $E$-function of the $3$-dimensional canonical toric Fano variety $X_{\Delta}$ associated with the polytope $\Delta$. Using the stringy Libgober-Wood identity and our formula, we generalize the well-known combinatorial identity $\sum_{\theta \preceq \Delta \atop \dim (\theta) =1} v(\theta) \cdot v(\theta^*) = 24$ holding in the case of $3$-dimensional reflexive polytopes $\Delta$.