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I believe that all facets of a Voronoi-cell of a lattice are centerally symmetric. Is my argument correct? Is this true?
So let $L$ be a full dimensional lattice in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. Then the Voronoi-cell of the lattice are precisely the points in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ that are at least as close to the origin, as to any ...
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What's the name of this constant similar to that of Hermite's?
Recently i've been thinking about base reduction of lattices, and this constant similar to Hermites constant came up. Let $L$ be a lattice with basis $\mathbf{b}_{1},\ldots,\mathbf{b}_{n}$. We define ...
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For which lattices L does the cluster of Voronoi regions abutting that of the origin have a lattice tiling of euclidean space?
Let L be a n-dimensional lattice (a discrete cocompact subgroup of n-space).
Let V0 denote the Voronoi region of the origin, and let C denote the union of V0 with all the Voronoi regions that share a ...
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On shortest vector problem
Assume we have an oracle which gives the length of the shortest vector in a lattice. Given this oracle can we find the shortest vector in polynomial time?
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Does $2$ variable linear Diophantine equation in $NC$ imply $2$ dimensional shortest vector is in $NC$?
Consider the Linear Diophantine in known $a,b,c\in\mathbb Z$
$$ax+by=c.$$
Above can be solve by Extended Euclidean which is not in $NC$ as far as we know. It is clear if Extended Euclidean is in $NC$ ...
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Existence of some lattice path connecting all given lattice paths
My daily work concerns analysis on metric spaces and some time ago it turned out that the problem I am dealing with boils down to a certain combinatorial problem. I've checked a lot of examples and it ...
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Mistake in Rogers' paper: "number of lattice points in a set" for the case $n=2$?
Let $f:\mathbb R^n\to \mathbb R$ be a nonnegative Borel measurable function, and
let $f^*$ be the function obtained from $f$ by spherical symmetrization (see Rogers' paper: number of lattice points in ...
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How large is the set of unimodular lattices whose sucesssive minima cannot be attained by a basis of lattice?
Recall that the $i$-th successive minimum of $L\in \mathcal L$ (space of full rank lattices in $\mathbb R^d$), denoted $\lambda_i(L)$ is the infimum of the radii of the balls containing $i$-linearly ...
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Proof of generalized Siegel's mean value formula in geometry of numbers
Let $\mu$ be the Haar measure defined on the space of unimodular lattices, identified with $\text{SL}(d,\mathbb R)/\text{SL}(d,\mathbb Z)$.
The classical Siegel's formula in geometry of numbers states ...
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Successive minima and the basis of lattice
I am able to prove the following two propositions: Recall that the $i$-th successive minimum of $L\in \mathcal L$, denoted $\lambda_i(L)$ is the infimum of the radii of the balls containing $i$-...
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Find the closest point of a lattice $\Lambda$ given the closest point for its union of cosets $\bigcup_i ({\bf r}_i+\Lambda)$
Suppose we have an $n$-dimensional lattice $\Lambda$, and a set of vectors ${\bf r}_i$, we can construct a union of cosets of $\Lambda$, denoted as $L$, as
$$
L \equiv \bigcup_i ({\bf r}_i+\Lambda)
$$
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How to construct lattices with largest possible number of Voronoi relevant lattice vectors?
Let M be the generator matrix of a $N$ dimensional lattice, and $V$ the set of Voronoi relevant vectors. The Voronoi cell for the origin can be written as $\text{Vor}_{\bf 0}(M)=\left\{{\bf x}: |{\bf ...
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Relation between positive roots of $E_8$ and $\mathbb{F}_2^8 \setminus \{0\}$
There exists an explicit bijection (due to Cayley, that has built up a very nice table to describe this) between the positive roots of the lattice $E_7$ and $\mathbb{F}_2^6 \setminus \{0\}$ (where $\...
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The range of each of successive minima for all unimodular lattices
Let $\mathcal L$ be the space of unimodular (covolume one) lattices in $\mathbb R^d$. The $i$-th successive minimum of $L\in \mathcal L$, denoted $\lambda_i(L)$ is the infimum of the radii of the ...
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Relationships among lattices U14, C2xG23, A15+ and their Delaunay polytopes
Do you have any references explaining the relationships among the lattices U14, C2xG23 aka Q14, and A15+?
Do you have any references explaining the relationships among these lattices and the 7D ...
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Standard Gram matrices for lattices
I would like to define standard Gram matrices, and use them to help me understand the symmetries of lattices.
I define "standard Gram matrix" as the Gram matrix g that minimizes the ...
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Intersecting lattices with surfaces in R^d
Let us fix some bounded surface $S\subset \mathbb{R}^d$. Let $x_1,\ldots, x_m$ be some non-zero vectors in $\mathbb{R}^d$. I am interested is the maximum number of points that the lattice $L_m=\{\sum ...
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Tri-coloring of E8 lattice? Why is the Gram matrix of E8 not unique?
This question is about euclidean lattices, regular arrays of points in $\mathbb R^N$.
Why are there 3 Gram matrices for the E8 lattice? They are not related by a similarity transformation; they have ...
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Lattices containing $A_n$ and $D_n$
How many lattices are there which contain both the $A_n$ and $D_n$ lattices of the same dimension as sublattices? So far, I’ve found examples in 1D, 3D, 8D, and 24D.
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Minimal volume of fundamental domains of lattices
Consider a full rank integer lattice in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Let $v_1$ be the shortest non-zero vector in the lattice, $v_2$ be the shortest one among those not parallel to $v_1$, $v_3$ be the shortest one ...
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Deep Holes of the tensor product of two lattices
Let $L_0, L_1$ be Euclidean lattices (say full rank) of dimension $n_i$. Let $\lambda_1(L_i)$ denote the length of the shortest vector of $L_i$, and let $\rho(L_i)$ denote the covering radius of $L_i$:...
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what is the number of paths returning to 0 on the hexagonal lattice
I am looking for an estimation of the number of paths of length $n$ going from 0 to 0 on the hexagonal (or honeycomb) lattice.
I can find plenty on references on self avoiding paths, but I am looking ...
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Closed cobounded additive submonoid of $\mathbb{R}^n$
Let $M$ be a closed additive submonoid of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with $n\geq1$. Suppose also that there exists $r>0$ such that every ball of radius $r$ intersects $M$. I wonder if we can obtain more ...
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Selfsimilar lattices in $\mathbb R^d$
Let $\Lambda\subset \mathbb R^d$ a discrete subgroup, up to diminishing $d$ we assume it is of the form $A\mathbb Z^d$ with $A\in GL(d)$. Up to dilation we assume that the shortest vector in $\Lambda\...
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Shortest vectors in tensor product and maximal lattices in tensor product
$\mathcal L$ and $\mathcal L'$ be full rank lattices in $\mathbb R^n$ with shortest vectors $v_1,\dots,v_n$ and $v_1',\dots,v_n'$ respectively where $$\|v_1\|_2\leq\dots\leq\|v_n\|_2$$
$$\|v_1'\|_2\...
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Can we count the number of integer lattice points in this case?
Gauss Circle problem gives the number of lattice points lie within a circle of radius $r$. This question points to a reference that estimates the number of lattice points in a $d−$dimensional ball.
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Isomorphism classes of lattices
Suppose we have a $4 \times 6$ matrix $A$ of rank $4$ whose entries are rational numbers. Define
$$
V = \{x \in \mathbb R^6 \mid A \cdot x = 0\}
$$
and
$$
\Lambda = \{x \in \mathbb Z^6 \mid A \cdot ...
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Lattice basis reduction over rings of number fields
Can one use lattice basis reduction algorithms, such as LLL over (low-rank) module lattices over rings of number fields of degree greater than 1? Is there any work on lattice reductions over Euclidean ...
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On necessary condition for no integer points in polytope
For a convex polytope $\mathcal K$ in $\Bbb R^n$ presented by $O(n^c)$ linear inequalities is it true that for $|\mathcal K\cap \Bbb Z^n|=0$ it is necessary that at least one axis of John's ellipsoid ...
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Gap in Successive minima on lattice spanned by rational and integer combination of integer vectors
We are given a rank $r$ matrix $B\in\Bbb Z^{k\times n}$ where $0\leq r\leq k\leq n$ holds.
We have
$$\mathcal L_\Bbb Z=\{uB\in\Bbb Z^n:u\in\Bbb Z^k\}\subseteq\mathcal L_\Bbb Q=\{uB\in\Bbb Z^n:u\in\...
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Integer points spanned by real, rational and integer combination of integer vectors
We are given a rank $r$ matrix $B\in\Bbb Z^{k\times n}$ where $0\leq r\leq k\leq n$ holds.
We have $\mathcal L_\Bbb Z\subseteq \mathcal L_\Bbb Q\subseteq\mathcal L_\Bbb R$ where
$$\mathcal L_\Bbb Z=\...
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Closest vertex in a 3D fcc lattice
The 3D fcc (face-centered-cubic) lattice, which has the same packing ratio as the 3D hexagonal close packed lattice, has the following 12 vectors connecting each vertex with its neighbors:
$(1,-1,0),...
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Densest sphere packing for a given lattice
There is a great deal of fascinating work on the sphere packing problem. I was wondering if there exist methods to find the densest possible packing of a sublattice of a given lattice. In particular, ...
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Bound on the fundamental region of a sublattice of a Niemeier Lattice
I am working with an 18 dimensional lattice, $W$ say, primitively embedded into a given Niemeier lattice $\mathcal{N}_i$. I am trying to figure out the following: what is the smallest possible ...
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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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Lattice question
Consider a lattice $\mathcal{L} = \mathbb{Z}v_1 \oplus \ldots \oplus \mathbb{Z}v_l$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and let $S_0$ be the set of edges of the fundamental unit of $\mathcal{L}$. We call a region $X$ ...
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Lattice paths in polytopes
Let $P$ be a polytope in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Let $A_ix = b_i$ be the defining equations of its codimension $1$ faces. Is there an algorithm or some kind of criterion to decide if the lattice points inside ...
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Lattice with Voronoi cell inside a circle
This considers real-valued lattices in two dimensions.
I need to find the densest lattice $\Lambda$, i.e., the one with the smallest determinant of its generator matrix, such that the Voronoi cell of ...
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What is the spinor genus of the Leech lattice?
The Leech lattice and the 23 Niemeier lattices make a single genus. How does it break up into spinor genera?
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Bound on the determinant of a quadratic form restricted to a subspace
Let $Q\colon \mathbb{Z}^{n}\oplus\mathbb{Z}^m\to\mathbb{R}$ be a real quadratic form, which we denote $Q(x,y)$, $x\in\mathbb{Z}^n$, $y\in\mathbb{Z}^m$. Suppose:
The minimum of $Q(x,y)$ as $y$ varies ...
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Writing integers in ring of integers of number fields
Given $a,b\in\Bbb N$, we can write $a=a_tb^t+a_{t-1}b^{t-1}+\dots+a_1b+a_0$ where $t=\lceil\log_ba\rceil$ and $a_i<b<a$.
(1) Supposing if $b\in\mathcal{O}_K$ where $\mathcal{O}_K$ is ring of ...
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Number of lattice points in a given triangle
Given a triangle with real coordinates, does anybody know how to find the number of lattice points contained within it? What if the points are only rational? I know Pick's formula can be used for the ...
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Given a positive-definite integral unimodular Gram matrix, how to find a basis of the associated lattice (over $\mathbf Q$)?
Let $G$ be a $n\times n-$symmetric matrix with integral coefficients and determinant $1$ (i.e. unimodular) such that the associated quadratic form is positive-definite.
I am interested in having an ...
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Covolume of the row span of a matrix and of the kernel of a matrix
Let $L$ be a $k$-dimensional lattice in $\mathbb{R}^n$. The covolume
$\hbox{CoVol}(L)$ of $L$ is the $k$-dimensional volume of a
fundamental domain for $L$, i.e., the volume of the parallelopiped
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Bound on Minimal Length of Vectors in Lattice and its Dual Lattice
Let $\Lambda$ be a lattice in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and $\Lambda^\ast$ its dual lattice. Let $d=\min_{v\in\Lambda} (v,v)$ and $d^\ast =\min_{v\in\Lambda^\ast} (v,v)$ be the minimal squared lengths of vectors ...
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Even unimodular lattices with root system $32 A_1$
I'm studying Venkov's proof of the classification of even unimodular rank 24 lattices, and it prompted the following question.
For an even unimodular lattice $L$, let $R(L)= \{ x \in L : (x,x) =2\}$ ...
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Applications of n-dimensional crystallographic groups
I would like to know what are the applications of the theory of $n$-dimensional crystallographic groups (aka space groups)
1) in mathematics
2) outside of mathematics,
besides the applications to $...
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Finding lattice with short basis-vectors containing given lattice
While working on understanding the space spanned by certain integer relations of real numbers I have come across the following problem. Given $v_1,\dots, v_n \in \mathbb{Z}^m$, I am would like to find ...