Counting basis extensions in a lattice

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Abstract: Given a primitive collection of vectors in the integer lattice, we count the number of ways it can be extended to a basis by vectors with sup-norm bounded by T, producing an asymptotic estimate as Toinfty. This problem can be interpreted in terms of unimodular matrices, as well as a representation problem for a class of multilinear forms. In the 2-dimensional case, this problem is also connected to the distribution of Farey fractions. As an auxiliary lemma we prove a counting estimate for the number of integer lattice points of bounded sup-norm in a hyperplane in~mathbbRn. Our main result on counting basis extensions also generalizes to arbitrary lattices in~mathbbRn. Finally, we establish some basic properties of sparse representations of integers by multilinear forms.









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