Extremal Lattices
Extremal Lattices
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1997
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R. Schulze
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作者:
Rudolf Scharlau;R. Schulze
This paper deals with discrete subgroups of euclidean vector spaces, equivalently finitely generated free abelian groups (isomorphic to Z for some n ∈ N) together with a positive definite quadratic form. Such a structure will be called a lattice for short, typically denoted by L,M, . . . , with values (v, w) ∈ R of the bilinear form (where v, w ∈ V ⊃ L, the enveloping R-vector space). The general background of this report is provided by the sphere packing problem (construction of lattices with large minimum), by the theory of modular forms, and by the theory of finite matrix groups. Almost all lattices of interest for one of the mentioned areas are “algebraic” or even “rational”, by which we mean that the form takes rational values on them: (v, w) ∈ Q for v, w ∈ L. After rescaling, that is, multiplying the form with some positive integral constant α, a rational lattice becomes integral : (v, w) ∈ Z for all v, w ∈ L. The rescaled lattice will be denoted by L. By definition, a lattice is integral if and only if it is contained in its dual lattice