Residue formulae, vector partition functions and lattice points in rational polytopes

Abstract

We obtain residue formulae for certain functions of several variables. As an application, we obtain closed formulae for vector partition functions and for their continuous analogs. They imply an Euler-MacLaurin summation formula for vector partition functions, and for rational convex polytopes as well: we express the sum of values of a polynomial function at all lattice points of a rational convex polytope in terms of the variation of the integral of the function over the deformed polytope.