A unified simple proof of a conjecture of Woods for n 6

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2008.10.021MaRDI QIDQ1017384zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. J. Hans-Gill, Madhu Raka, Ranjeet Sehmi, Sucheta

Publication date 19 May 2009

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnt.2008.10.021

zbMATH Keywords

critical determinantlatticeMinkowski's conjecturenon-homogeneousreductionsphereWoods' conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice packing and covering (number-theoretic aspects) (11H31) Products of linear forms (11H46) Inhomogeneous linear forms (11J20) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17)

Review text

The conjecture of Woods states that any unimodular lattice that satisfies some conditions on its Korkine-Zolotareff reduced basis has a covering radius of \(\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{n}\) (the orthogonal projections of the basis vectors have to be shorter than the first one). This conjecture implies another conjecture on the covering radius of well-rounded lattices which is considered as one of the two steps in the current approach to prove Minkowski's conjecture on the product of inhomogeneous linear forms [see \textit{C. T. McMullen}, J. Am. Math. Soc. 18, No. 3, 711--734 (2005; Zbl 1132.11034)]. The authors give here a unified proof of the conjecture of Woods up to dimension 6, which relies on a careful case by case analysis that resorts to classical inequalities by Korkine and Zolotareff and lemmas by Woods. Note that this method was further used in dimension 7 to prove the conjectures of Woods and Minkowski [J. Number Theory 129, No. 5, 1011--1033 (2009; Zbl 1175.11033)].

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