On the structure of even unimodular extremal lattices of rank 40 (Q919020)

The author considers positive definite even unimodular lattices of dimension 40 which have no vector of norm (i.e., squared length) 2. The first theorem says that such a lattice is generated by its vectors of norms 4 and 6. The second part of the paper deals with lattices in which a maximal system of norm 4 vectors with even scalar products is of type \(D_{40}\).