Definite unimodular lattices having an automorphism of given characteristic polynomial (Q762540)

A unimodular lattice in Euclidean space having an automorphism with characteristic polynomial f is called an f-lattice. The following problems are discussed and partially solved: Which polynomials occur ? Under which conditions on f are f-lattices indecomposable ? How many classes of f-lattices are there for a given polynomial f ? In particular, for a cyclotomic polynomial \(f=\Phi_ m\) the author proves: If m is a power of 2, there exist f-lattices; if m is not a power of 2, there exist f-lattices if and only if \(\phi\) (m) is divisible by 8 and m is not of the form \(p^ r\) or \(2p^ r\) for a prime p. If m is square-free, then every f-lattice is indecomposable. If the relative class number of \({\mathbb{Q}}(e^{2\pi i/m})\) is odd, then the class number of f-lattices is at most equal to the cardinality of the relative class group modulo the Galois group of \({\mathbb{Q}}(e^{2\pi i/m})/{\mathbb{Q}}\).