The mass of unimodular lattices

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2005.02.007MaRDI QIDQ2569014zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mikhail Belolipetsky, Wee Teck Gan

Publication date 17 October 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0307195

zbMATH Keywords

Bruhat-Tits theorymass formulaunimodular lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic forms over global rings and fields (11E12) Class numbers of quadratic and Hermitian forms (11E41) Lattices and convex bodies (number-theoretic aspects) (11H06)

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to show how to obtain the mass of a unimodular lattice from the point of view of the Bruhat-Tits theory. This is achieved by relating the local stabilizer of the lattice to a maximal parahoric subgroup of the special orthogonal group, and appealing to an explicit mass formula for parahoric subgroups developed by Gan, Hanke and Yu. Of course, the exact mass formula for positive defined unimodular lattices is well-known. Moreover, the exact formula for lattices of signature (1,n) (which give rise to hyperbolic orbifolds) was obtained by Ratcliffe and Tschantz, starting from the fundamental work of Siegel. Our approach works uniformly for the lattices of arbitrary signature (r,s) and hopefully gives a more conceptual way of deriving the above known results.

Review text

Since the local-global principle fails for the integral theory of quadratic forms in general, Smith, Minkowski and Siegel established so called mass formulae for integral quadratic forms. Such formulae can be simply reformulated using adelic language by Kneser, Tamagawa and Weil. The computation of mass of a genus of quadratic form is given by local factors for all finite primes. In this paper, the local factors are computed by using Bruhat-Tits theory for unimodular lattices. Such method is quite simple and conceptual especially for \(p=2\).

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