Classification of positive definite lattices

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-00-10536-4MaRDI QIDQ1847788zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Richard E. Borcherds

Publication date 27 October 2002

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9912236

zbMATH Keywords

Lorentzian latticepositive definite latticeunimodular lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic forms over global rings and fields (11E12) Class numbers of quadratic and Hermitian forms (11E41)

Abstract: In this paper we describe an algorithm for classifying orbits of vectors in Lorentzian lattices. The main point of this is that isomorphism classes of positive definite lattices in some genus often correspond to orbits of vectors in some Lorentzian lattice, so we can classify some positive definite lattices. As an application we give the classification of the 665 25-dimensional unimodular positive definite lattices and the 121 even 25 dimensional positive definite lattices of determinant 2. We also use this algorithm to show that there is a unique 26 dimensional unimodular positive definite lattice with no roots.

Review text

Most of the results of this paper are taken from the authors's unpublished thesis ``The Leech lattice and other lattices (Cambridge, 1985; see \texttt{http://arXiv.org/abs/math/9911195}). The paper describes an algorithm for classifying orbits of vectors in a Lorentzian lattice. Such orbits sometimes correspond to isomorphism classes of positive definite lattices in some genus, which then may be classified. A more detailed description of the algorithm is given for the case of the 26-dimensional even unimodular Lorentzian lattice. As an application the author obtains the classification of the positive definite odd unimodular lattices and even determinant-two lattices in dimension 25; the class numbers are 665 and 121, respectively. Also derived is the uniqueness of a positive definite unimodular lattice without roots in dimension 26. (In an unpublished 1996 preprint by \textit{R. Bacher} and \textit{B. Venkov}, the class number of such lattices in dimension 27 is found to be 3).

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