Isolations of cubic lattices from their proper sublattices

Abstract: A (positive definite and integral) quadratic form is called {it an isolation} of a quadratic form

f

if it represents all subforms of

f

except for

f

itself. The minimum rank of isolations of a quadratic form

f

is denoted, if it exists, by

e x t I s o (f)

. In this article, we show that

e x t I s o (I_{2}) = 5

and

e x t I s o (I_{3}) = 6

, where

I_{n} = x_{1}^{2} + d o t s + x_{n}^{2}

is the sum of

n

squares for any positive integer

n

. After proving that there always exists an isolation of

I_{n}

for any positive integer

n

, we provide some explicit lower and upper bounds for

e x t I s o (I_{n})

. In particular, we show that

e x t I s o (I_{n}) i n O m e g a (n^{f r a c 32 - e p s i l o n})

for any

e p s i l o n > 0

.

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