Counterexamples to the Woods conjecture in dimensions d 24

DOI10.5802/JTNB.1105MaRDI QIDQ2199516zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Hao Chen, Liqing Xu

Publication date 11 September 2020

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

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Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.5802/jtnb.1105

zbMATH Keywords

latticeMinkowski conjectureWoods conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice packing and covering (number-theoretic aspects) (11H31) Geometry of numbers (11H99)

Review text

The covering radius of a lattice \(L\) is \(\max_{\mathbf y}\in\mathbb R^d\), \(\mathbf x\in L\{\sqrt{\langle\mathbf y-\mathbf x,\mathbf y-\mathbf x \rangle}\}\). Let \(N_d\) be the greatest covering radius over all well-rounded unimodular \(d\) dimensional lattices. \textit{A. C. Woods} [J. Number Theory 4, 157--180 (1972; Zbl 0232.10020)] conjectured that \(N_d\leq\frac{\sqrt{d}}{{2}}\). This conjecture has been proved for \(d \leq 9\) and counterexamples have been found for \(d \geq 30\). The authors give counterexamples to the conjecture for \(d \geq 24\). The cases that remain are \(10 \leq d \leq 23\).

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