Hollow polytopes with many vertices

Abstract

Given a set $S \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$, a hollow polytope has vertices in $S$ but contains no other point of $S$ in its interior. We prove upper and lower bounds on the maximum number of vertices of hollow polytopes whose facets are simplices or whose vertices are in general position. We also obtain relatively tight asymptotic bounds for polytopes which do not contain lattice segments of large length.