#### D.13.1.16 ellipticNF

Procedure from library `polymake.lib` (see polymake_lib).

Usage:
  ellipticNF(polygon); polygon list

Assume:
  polygon is a list of integer vectors in the plane such that their convex hull C has precisely one interior lattice point; i.e. C is the Newton polygon of an elliptic curve

Purpose:
  compute the normal form of the polygon with respect to the unimodular affine transformations T=A*x+v; there are sixteen different normal forms (see e.g. Bjorn Poonen, Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas: Lattice Polygons and the number 12. Amer. Math. Monthly 107 (2000), no. 3, 238--250.)

Return:
  list, L such that
  L[1] : list whose entries are the vertices of the normal form of the polygon
  L[2] : the matrix A of the unimodular transformation
  L[3] : the translation vector v of the unimodular transformation
  L[4] : list such that the ith entry is the image of polygon[i] under the unimodular transformation T

Example:

    LIB "polymake.lib";
    ring r=0,(x,y),dp;
    // the Newton polygon of the following polynomial
    //     has precisely one interior point
    poly f=x22y11+x19y10+x17y9+x16y9+x12y7+x9y6+x7y5+x2y3;
    list polygon=newtonPolytopeLP(f);
    // its lattice points are
    polygon;
    // find its normal form
    list nf=ellipticNF(polygon);
    // the vertices of the normal form are
    nf[1];
    // it has been transformed by the unimodular affine transformation A*x+v
    // with matrix A
    nf[2];
    // and translation vector v
    nf[3];
    // the 3rd lattice point ...
    polygon[3];
    // ... has been transformed to
    nf[4][3];

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