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Discriminants and lattices in Algebraic geometry vs Geometry of numbers

(Post-writing, this question ended up being way more rambly than I intended. Sorry for that. There's a lot of closely related ideas I'm trying to unravel and it's hard to extract an individual ...
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If a lattice can be embedded into $\mathbb Q^n,\langle-1\rangle^n$, then can it be embedded into $\mathbb Z^n,\langle -1 \rangle^n$?

Given a graph with negative integers on each vertex $\Gamma$ there is a corresponding intersection lattice denoted $Q_\Gamma$, a free $\mathbb Z$ module generated by the vertices, endowed with a ...
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What is the lattice point distribution over binary quadratic forms?

Let $f(x,y)=x^2+ny^2$ be the binary quadratic form of interest and consider the lattice points $S=\{ (x,y,f(x,y)) \in \mathbb{N}^3 \}$. For simplicity, we keep things only on quadrant I of the ...
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Roots in indefinite lattice of K3 surfaces

Anyone who likes $K3$ surfaces cares about lattices of the form $$ (2d)\cdot y^2 - 2x \cdot z$$ (namely the mukai pairing on $H^*_{alg}(K3)$ of picard $1$ with polarization $d$). Inside we have ...
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Number of points in a ball in positive characteristic

Let $w_1,\cdots,w_n$ be of elements of $\Omega$, that is the completion of $\overline{\mathbb F_q\left(\left(\frac1T\right)\right)}$ for the topology induced by the $-\deg$ valuation. Assume that $w_1,...
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Will Coppersmith's method work for this bivariate modular polynomial shape?

I have a bivariate modular polynomial of shape $$f(x,y)=x^2y-g(x)\equiv 0\bmod q$$ where $q=(2p-1)(2p+1)$ is a product of two primes $2p-1$ and $2p+1$, $g(x)\in\mathbb Z[x]$ is of degree four and $f(...
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Constructions of complex surfaces covered by the ball of $\mathbb{C}^2$

Let $S$ be a compact complex surface. It is well-known that the following two facts are equivalent $c_1^2(S) = 3 c_2(S)$ and $S \neq \mathbb{CP}^2$ The universal cover of $S$ is biholomorphic to the ...
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How do we know there are no more Deligne–Mostow/Thurston lattices?

In the context of hypergeometric functions, Deligne and Mostow enumerated several lattices in complex hyperbolic space/the rank 1 Lie group $\operatorname{PU}(1,n)$ (see [1] and [2]). Thurston used ...
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K3 surfaces with no −2 curves

I seem to remember that a K3 surface with big Picard rank always has smooth rational curves. This question is equivalent to the following question about integral quadratic lattices. Let us call a ...
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What is the lattice of the field $\mathbb Q_p(\sqrt[p^5-1]{p^2})$?

Let $p$ be odd prime and $\mathbb Q_p$ be the $p$-adic field. Consider the field extension $K=\mathbb Q_p(\sqrt[(p^5-1)]{p^2})$ of $\mathbb Q_p$ of degree $\frac{p^5-1}{2}$. My question: I want see ...
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A group in a neighbourhood of a Zariski dense subgroup

By Borel's theorem, lattices in simple Lie groups are Zariski dense. I expect that a small (in metric sense) deformation of a lattice in a Lie group is also Zariski dense. Suppose we have a Zariski ...
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Kac-Peterson modular forms and shifted theta functions

Let $\Lambda$ be the root lattice corresponding to an ADE root system $R$ of rank $n$. With the ADE assumption, the weight lattice is simply the dual lattice $\Lambda^{\vee}$. Given any weight vector $...
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Obstruction in construction of some lattices, related with $K3$ surfaces

I am considering a certain $K3$ surface that is lattice-polarized in two ways. This leads to the following simple problem in lattice theory: (Let me borrow notations for lattice from Ch.14 of this ...
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Does a transitive action of $O(L^{\#}/L)$ imply a transitive action of $O(L)$ on $L^{\#}/L$?

Given an even lattice $L$ the orthogonal group $O(L)$ acts on the discriminant group $L^{\#}/L$ as is known. Hence, for every $\gamma \in O(L)$ there is a $\overline{\gamma}\in O(L^{\#}/L)$ that acts ...
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Classification of root lattice embeddings in $E_{10}$

There is a well-known classification result which gives a complete list of all root lattices which can embed into the lattice $E_8$. Moreover, each of these root lattices admits a unique embedding ...
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Efficiently find at least one lattice point on hyperbola of equation $axy+bx+cy+d=0$

I need an algorithm to efficiently find at least one lattice point on a hyperbola of equation $axy+bx+cy+d=0$. Lattice point means integer coordinates and equation with integer means diophantine ...
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Theta Function Associated to Kummer Lattice

This is something which I feel must be out in the literature somewhere, but I have been unable to find anything. If we let $\text{Km}(A)$ be the Kummer $K3$ surface associated to an abelian surface $A$...
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On dimension of Segre embedding of lattice translations

Consider three lattices $L_1$, $L_2$ in $\Bbb Z^{n+1}$ and $L$ in $\Bbb Z^{2n+1}$. Let $L_1+v_1$, $L_2+v_2$ and $L+v$ be their respective translationsfor some $v_1,v_2\in\Bbb Z^{n+1}\backslash\{(0,\...
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Elliptic Curves, Lattices, Lie Algebras

I've recently started to look at elliptic curves and have three basic questions: Is it correct to say that elliptic curves $E$ in the projective plane are in bijective correspondence with lattices $...
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Lattice with trivial spinor norm

Let $\Lambda$ be a non-degenerate lattice (over $\mathbb{Z}$) with quadratic form $q$. I define the spinor norm $\theta \colon O(\Lambda_\mathbb{R} )\to \lbrace\pm 1\rbrace$ as follows: For a ...
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Theta Functions and Cousins

So I am (barely) familiar with the construction of the theta function of an integral lattice $L$. The theta function, as I understand it, is defined as the function which takes a variable $z$ and ...
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When are Ehrhart functions of compact convex sets polynomials?

Given a lattice $L$ and a subset $P\subset \mathbb R^d$, we define for each positive integer $t$ $$f_P(L,t)=|(tP\cap L)|$$ the number of lattice points in $tP$. Let's say $P$ is nice if $f_P(L,t)$ is ...
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Do constructible sets have Krull dimension?

Let $(I,\leq)$ be a poset. Recall that the Krull dimension of $I$ is defined as follows: -- $K.dim(I)=-1$ if and only if $I=\{0\}$; -- if $\alpha$ is an ordinal and we already defined what it means ...
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Automorphism groups of indefinite non-unimodular integer lattices

Does anyone know of any papers in which structural aspects of the orthogonal group of some indefinite non-unimodular integral lattice are calculated? The exact lattice isn't so important and they don'...
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Lattice basis with Gram-Schmidt vectors of increasing length

Let $\Lambda$ be an $n$-dimensional lattice in $\mathbb R^n$ and let $\cal B$ be the set of all bases that generate $\Lambda$. For a basis $\mathbf{B}=[\mathbf{b}_1, ... ,\mathbf{b}_n]\in {\cal B}$, ...
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Invariant lattice of algebraic surface.

Given an algebraic surface $S$ with action of a finite group $G$. Is it true that the invariant lattice $H^2(X,\mathbb{Z})^G$ is generated by elements pulled back from the $H^2(X/G,\mathbb{Z})$ (or $H^...
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$T^2$-fibered K3 surface with involution

Let $S$ be a K3 surface and $f:S\rightarrow \mathbb{P}^1$ a $T^2$-fibration (not necessarily holomorphic, I have a special Langrangian fibration in mind). Assume there is a $k$-section, then a fiber ...
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Singular fibers of an elliptic fibered K3 surface.

Let $f:S\rightarrow \mathbb{P}^1$ be an elliptic K3 surface. Assume that $\mathrm{Pic}(S)\cong U$, where $U$ stands for the hyperbolic lattice. I think that the elliptic fibration has only singular ...
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Versions of Helly's Theorem for Unbounded Parallelpipeds

I'm studying Frobenius splitting of toric varieties based on Sam Payne's characterization of Frobenius splitting ("Frobenius splittings of toric varieties" (2008)) and I came across a sort of Helly's ...
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Neron-Severi Lattice of Elliptic K3

I'm trying to compute Neron-Severi lattices of some K3 surfaces. They have elliptic fibrations with multiple sections. Setting one section to be the identity section, I can write down a Weierstrass ...