• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.58 no.5
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• pp.1247-1260
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• 2021

We introduce the notion of barycentric transformation of Fano polytopes, from which we can assign a certain type to each Fano polytope. The type can be viewed as a measure of the extent to which the given Fano polytope is close to be Kähler-Einstein. In particular, we expect that every Kähler-Einstein Fano polytope is of type B_∞. We verify this expectation for some low dimensional cases. We emphasize that for a Fano polytope X of dimension 1, 3 or 5, X is Kähler-Einstein if and only if it is of type B_∞.