Lattice polytopes of degree 2

A theorem of Scott gives an upper bound for the normalized volume of lattice polygons with exactly i > 0 interior lattice points. We will show that the same bound is true for the normalized volume of lattice polytopes of degree 2 even in higher dimensions. In particular, there is only a finite number of quadratic polynomials with fixed leading coefficient being the h ∗ -polynomial of a lattice polytope.