The contact polytope of the Leech lattice

DOI10.1007/S00454-010-9266-ZzbMATH Open1204.52015arXiv0906.1427OpenAlexW1985513765MaRDI QIDQ603877FDOQ603877

Authors: Mathieu Dutour Sikirić, Achill Schürmann, Frank Vallentin 

Publication date: 8 November 2010

Published in: Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The contact polytope of a lattice is the convex hull of its shortest vectors. In this paper we classify the facets of the contact polytope of the Leech lattice up to symmetry. There are 1,197,362,269,604,214,277,200 many facets in 232 orbits.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1427

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zbMATH Keywords

Leech latticeVoronoi cellConway groupscontact polytope

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11)

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