Root lattices in number fields

Abstract: We explore whether a root lattice may be similar to the lattice

m a t h s c r O

of integers of a number field

K

endowed with the inner product

(x, y) := {m T r a c e}_{K / m a t h b b Q} (x c d o t h e t a (y))

, where

h e t a

is an involution of

K

. We classify all pairs

K

,

h e t a

such that

m a t h s c r O

is similar to either an even root lattice or the root lattice

m a t h b b Z^{[K : m a t h b b Q]}

. We also classify all pairs

K

,

h e t a

such that

m a t h s c r O

is a root lattice. In addition to this, we show that

m a t h s c r O

is never similar to a positive-definite even unimodular lattice of rank

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, in particular,

m a t h s c r O

is not similar to the Leech lattice. In appendix, we give a general cyclicity criterion for the primary components of the discriminant group of

m a t h s c r O

.

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