A note on Quebbemann's extremal lattices of rank 64 (Q2684410)

An extremal lattice is an integral even unimodular lattice whose shortest vectors has the maximal norm allowed by the classical bound coming from modular forms. \textit{H. G. Quebbemann} [Mathematika 31, 137--140 (1984; Zbl 0538.10028)] introduced a special construction of such unimodular lattice and the paper gives in complete detail this construction and slightly generalizes it. The author also cites other construction of extremal unimodular lattices in dimension 64. Any extremal lattice of dimension 64 has exactly 2611200 shortest vectors. The shortest vectors of the lattices obtained by Quebbeman can be described by the explicit construction. The author devises a special criterion that allows to compute the automorphism group of those lattices and to prove non-isomorphism in some cases. This allows the author to find 300 isomorphism classes of extremal lattices in dimension 64 whose automorphism group is trivial.