Diagonal lattices and rootless EE₈ pairs

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2011.05.015zbMATH Open1267.11080arXiv1101.2188OpenAlexW1560284234MaRDI QIDQ659908FDOQ659908

Ching Hung Lam, Robert L. jun. Griess

Publication date: 24 January 2012

Published in: Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let E be an integral lattice. We first discuss some general properties of an SDC lattice, i.e., a sum of two diagonal copies of E in E �ot E. In particular, we show that its group of isometries contains a wreath product. We then specialize this study to the case of E = E_8 and provide a new and fairly natural model for those rootless lattices which are sums of a pair of EE_8-lattices. This family of lattices was classified in [7]. We prove that this set of isometry types is in bijection with the set of conjugacy classes of rootless elements in the isometry group O(E_8), i.e., those h in O(E_8) such that the sublattice (h - 1)E_8 contains no roots. Finally, our model gives new embeddings of several of these lattices in the Leech lattice.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2188

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zbMATH Keywords

Leech latticeintegral latticeautomorphism of lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple groups: sporadic groups (20D08) Automorphism groups of lattices (11H56)

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