Modular lattices from finite projective planes

DOI10.5802/JTNB.867MaRDI QIDQ2341675zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tathagata Basak

Publication date 27 April 2015

Published in Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2431

zbMATH Keywords

projective planesLeech latticeHermitian Lorentzian lattices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic forms over global rings and fields (11E12) Finite affine and projective planes (geometric aspects) (51E15) Bilinear and Hermitian forms (11E39) Automorphism groups of lattices (11H56)

Abstract: Using the geometry of the projective plane over the finite field F_q, we construct a Hermitian Lorentzian lattice L_q of dimension (q^2 + q + 2) defined over a certain number ring $cO$ that depends on q. We show that infinitely many of these lattices are p-modular, that is, p L'_q = L_q, where p is some prime in $cO$ such that |p|^2 = q. The reflection group of the Lorentzian lattice obtained for q = 3 seems to be closely related to the monster simple group via the presentation of the bimonster as a quotient of the Coxeter group on the incidence graph of P^2(F_3). The Lorentzian lattices L_q sometimes lead to construction of interesting positive definite lattices. In particular, if q is a rational prime that is 3 mod 4, and (q^2 + q + 1) is norm of some element in Q[sqrt{-q}], then we find a 2q(q+1) dimensional even unimodular positive definite integer lattice M_q such that Aut(M_q) contains PGL(3,F_q). We find that M_3 is the Leech lattice.

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