Lattices and correction terms

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-61958-9_11MaRDI QIDQ5011670zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kyle Larson

Publication date 27 August 2021

Published in Trends in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05098

zbMATH Keywords

correction termlattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattices and convex bodies (number-theoretic aspects) (11H06) General topology of 3-manifolds (57K30) General topology of 4-manifolds (57K40)

Abstract: Let L be a nonunimodular definite lattice. Using a theorem of Elkies we show that whether L embeds in the standard definite lattice of the same rank is completely determined by a collection of lattice correction terms, one for each metabolizing subgroup of the discriminant group. As a topological application this gives a rephrasing of the obstruction for a rational homology 3-sphere to bound a rational homology 4-ball coming from Donaldson's theorem on definite intersection forms of 4-manifolds. Furthermore, from this perspective it is easy to see that if the obstruction to bounding a rational homology ball coming from Heegaard Floer correction terms vanishes, then (under some mild hypotheses) the obstruction from Donaldson's theorem vanishes too.

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