On conjectures of Minkowski and Woods for n=10

Abstract: Let

m a t h b b L

be a lattice in

n

-dimensional Euclidean space

m a t h b b R^{n}

reduced in the sense of Korkine and Zolotareff and having a basis of the form

(A_{1}, 0, 0, c d o t s

, 0),

~

(a_{2, 1}, A_{2}, 0, c d o t s, 0), c d o t s,

(a_{n, 1}, a_{n, 2}, c d o t s, a_{n, n - 1}, A_{n})

. A famous conjecture of Woods in Geometry of Numbers asserts that if

A_{1} A_{2} c d o t s A_{n} = 1

and

A_{i} l e q A_{1}

for each

i

then any closed sphere in

m a t h b b R^{n}

of radius

s q r t n / 4

contains a point of

m a t h b b L .

Together with a result of C. T. McMullen (2005), the truth of Woods' Conjecture for a fixed

n

, implies the long standing classical conjecture of Minkowski on product of

n

non-homogeneous linear forms for that value of

n

. In an earlier paper `Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.) Vol. 126, 2016, 501-548' we proved Woods' Conjecture for

n = 9

. In this paper, we prove Woods' Conjecture and hence Minkowski's Conjecture for

n = 10

.

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