  Let $X$ be a $(d\times N)$-matrix. We consider the variable polytope
$\Pi_X(u) = \{w \ge 0 : X w = u \}$. It is known that the function $T_X$ that
assigns to a parameter $u \in \mathbb{R}^d$ the volume of the polytope
$\Pi_X(u)$ is piecewise polynomial. The Brion-Vergne formula implies that the
number of lattice points in $\Pi_X(u)$ can be obtained by applying a certain
differential operator to the function $T_X$.
  In this article we slightly improve the Brion-Vergne formula and we study two
spaces of differential operators that arise in this context: the space of
relevant differential operators (i.e. operators that do not annihilate $T_X$)
and the space of nice differential operators (i.e. operators that leave $T_X$
continuous). These two spaces are finite-dimensional homogeneous vector spaces
and their Hilbert series are evaluations of the Tutte polynomial of the
arithmetic matroid defined by the matrix $X$. They are closely related to the
$\mathcal{P}$-spaces studied by Ardila-Postnikov and Holtz-Ron in the context
of zonotopal algebra and power ideals.
