Counting lattice points and weak admissibility of a lattice and its dual (Q2218712)

Let \(\Gamma\subseteq \mathbb{R}^{n}\) be a unimodular lattice, and let \[ \Gamma^{\perp}:=\{w\in \mathbb{R}^{n}:\langle v,\ w\rangle\in \mathbb{Z}\,\,\forall\,\, {v\in\Gamma}\} \] be its dual lattice with respect to the standard inner product \(\langle\cdot, \cdot\rangle\). Let \(\gamma_{n}\) denote the Hermite constant, and for \(\rho>\gamma_{n}^{\frac{1}{2}}\) set \(\displaystyle \nu(\Gamma,\ \rho):=\min\{|x_{1}\cdots x_{n}|\ :\ x\ :=(x_{1},\ \ldots,\ x_{n})^{T}\in\Gamma,\ 0<\Vert x\Vert_{2}<\rho\}\) where \(\Vert \cdot \Vert_{2}\) denotes the Euclidean norm. Then \(\Gamma\) is said to be weakly admissible if \(\nu(\Gamma,\ \rho)>0\) for all \(\rho>\gamma_{n}^{\frac{1}{2}}\). In this present work the authors derive a counting argument for the number of lattice points for the dual lattices of weakly admissible lattices in an inhomogeneously expanding box. They show that the error term can be written in the form \(\nu(\Gamma^{\perp},\ \cdot)\) , and comparisons are made with \(\nu(\Gamma,\ \cdot)\). The authors go on to show that \(\nu(\Gamma^{\perp},\ \cdot)=\nu(\Gamma,\ \cdot)\) for any unimodular lattice of rank 2, but that for higher ranks it is in general not possible to bound one function in terms of the other.