Lattices like the Leech lattice (Q913845)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4148184
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    Lattices like the Leech lattice
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4148184

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      Lattices like the Leech lattice (English)
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      The main result of this paper (which applies to the Coxeter-Todd lattice of dimension 12 and the Barnes-Wall lattice of dimension 16) says the following. Let G be a group of automorphisms of the Leech lattice \(\Lambda\) such that the sublattice \(\Lambda '\) of vectors of \(\Lambda\) fixed by G has no roots, and let R be the Lorentzian lattice that is the sum of \(\Lambda '\) and the unimodular hyperbolic plane. Then R has a norm 0 vector c such that the simple roots of the reflection group of R are exactly the roots r of R such that the inner product (r,c) is negative and divides (r,v) for all vectors v of R. The group Aut(R) is isomorphic to a split extension of its reflection group by the group of affine automorphisms of \(\Lambda '\).
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      Coxeter-Todd lattice
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      Barnes-Wall lattice
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      group of automorphisms
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      Leech lattice
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      Lorentzian lattice
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      reflection group
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