The strongly perfect lattices of dimension 10 (Q5939724): Difference between revisions

By a theorem of the second author, a lattice in Euclidean \(n\)-space whose minimal vectors form a spherical 4-design (resp., 2-design) is perfect (resp., eutactic) in the sense of Voronoi. A lattice having this 4-design property is called strongly perfect (its density then attains a local maximum). The classification of such lattices was known for \(n\leq 8\), where only root lattices and their duals occur, and also for \(n=9\) and 11 where the second author had shown that no examples exist. For \(n=10\), so far two less trivial examples were known, an integral lattice with minimum 4 and its dual, and their kissing numbers (270 and 240, respectively) were known to be the only possible ones. In a rather involved analysis it is verified now that, up to similarity, no other strongly perfect lattices exist in dimension~10.