Non-injectivity of Nonzero Discriminant Polynomials and Applications to Packing Polynomials

Abstract

We show that an integer-valued quadratic polynomial on $\mathbb{R}^2$ can not be injective on the integer lattice points of any affine convex cone if its discriminant is nonzero. A consequence is the non-existence of quadratic packing polynomials on irrational sectors of $\mathbb{R}^2$.