Perfect Lattices in Euclidean Spaces

Perfect Lattices in Euclidean Spaces
Author: Jacques Martinet
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3662051672

Lattices are discrete subgroups of maximal rank in a Euclidean space. To each such geometrical object, we can attach a canonical sphere packing which, assuming some regularity, has a density. The question of estimating the highest possible density of a sphere packing in a given dimension is a fascinating and difficult problem: the answer is known only up to dimension 3. This book thus discusses a beautiful and central problem in mathematics, which involves geometry, number theory, coding theory and group theory, centering on the study of extreme lattices, i.e. those on which the density attains a local maximum, and on the so-called perfection property. Written by a leader in the field, it is closely related to, though disjoint in content from, the classic book by J.H. Conway and N.J.A. Sloane, Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups, published in the same series as vol. 290. Every chapter except the first and the last contains numerous exercises. For simplicity those chapters involving heavy computational methods contain only few exercises. It includes appendices on Semi-Simple Algebras and Quaternions and Strongly Perfect Lattices.

Automorphic Forms and Even Unimodular Lattices

Automorphic Forms and Even Unimodular Lattices
Author: Gaëtan Chenevier
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2019-02-28
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3319958917

This book includes a self-contained approach of the general theory of quadratic forms and integral Euclidean lattices, as well as a presentation of the theory of automorphic forms and Langlands' conjectures, ranging from the first definitions to the recent and deep classification results due to James Arthur. Its connecting thread is a question about lattices of rank 24: the problem of p-neighborhoods between Niemeier lattices. This question, whose expression is quite elementary, is in fact very natural from the automorphic point of view, and turns out to be surprisingly intriguing. We explain how the new advances in the Langlands program mentioned above pave the way for a solution. This study proves to be very rich, leading us to classical themes such as theta series, Siegel modular forms, the triality principle, L-functions and congruences between Galois representations. This monograph is intended for any mathematician with an interest in Euclidean lattices, automorphic forms or number theory. A large part of it is meant to be accessible to non-specialists.

Theory of Symmetric Lattices

Theory of Symmetric Lattices
Author: Fumitomo Maeda
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3642462480

Of central importance in this book is the concept of modularity in lattices. A lattice is said to be modular if every pair of its elements is a modular pair. The properties of modular lattices have been carefully investigated by numerous mathematicians, including 1. von Neumann who introduced the important study of continuous geometry. Continu ous geometry is a generalization of projective geometry; the latter is atomistic and discrete dimensional while the former may include a continuous dimensional part. Meanwhile there are many non-modular lattices. Among these there exist some lattices wherein modularity is symmetric, that is, if a pair (a,b) is modular then so is (b,a). These lattices are said to be M-sym metric, and their study forms an extension of the theory of modular lattices. An important example of an M-symmetric lattice arises from affine geometry. Here the lattice of affine sets is upper continuous, atomistic, and has the covering property. Such a lattice, called a matroid lattice, can be shown to be M-symmetric. We have a deep theory of parallelism in an affine matroid lattice, a special kind of matroid lattice. Further more we can show that this lattice has a modular extension.

Diophantine Methods, Lattices, and Arithmetic Theory of Quadratic Forms

Diophantine Methods, Lattices, and Arithmetic Theory of Quadratic Forms
Author: Wai Kiu Chan
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2013
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821883186

This volume contains the proceedings of the International Workshop on Diophantine Methods, Lattices, and Arithmetic Theory of Quadratic Forms. The articles cover the arithmetic theory of quadratic forms and lattices, as well as the effective Diophantine analysis with height functions.

The Structure of Modular Lattices of Width Four with Applications to Varieties of Lattices

The Structure of Modular Lattices of Width Four with Applications to Varieties of Lattices
Author: Ralph S. Freese
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 103
Release: 1977
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821821814

A variety (equational class) of lattices is said to be finitely based if there exists a finite set of identities defining the variety. Let [capital script]M [infinity symbol] [over][subscript italic]n denote the lattice variety generated by all modular lattices of width not exceeding [subscript italic]n. [capital script]M [infinity symbol] [over]1 and [capital script]M [infinity symbol] [over]2 are both the class of all distributive lattices and consequently finitely based. B. Jónsson has shown that [capital script]M [infinity symbol] [over]3 is also finitely based. On the other hand, K. Baker has shown that [capital script]M [infinity symbol] [over][subscript italic]n is not finitely based for 5 [less than or equal to symbol] [italic]n [less than] [lowercase Greek]Omega. This paper settles the finite bases problem for [capital script]M [infinity symbol] [over]4.

Lattice Concepts of Module Theory

Lattice Concepts of Module Theory
Author: Grigore Calugareanu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9401595887

It became more and more usual, from, say, the 1970s, for each book on Module Theory, to point out and prove some (but in no more than 15 to 20 pages) generalizations to (mostly modular) lattices. This was justified by the nowadays widely accepted perception that the structure of a module over a ring is best understood in terms of the lattice struc ture of its submodule lattice. Citing Louis H. Rowen "this important example (the lattice of all the submodules of a module) is the raison d'etre for the study of lattice theory by ring theorists". Indeed, many module-theoretic results can be proved by using lattice theory alone. The purpose of this book is to collect and present all and only the results of this kind, although for this purpose one must develop some significant lattice theory. The results in this book are of the following categories: the folklore of Lattice Theory (to be found in each Lattice Theory book), module theoretic results generalized in (modular, and possibly compactly gen erated) lattices (to be found in some 6 to 7 books published in the last 20 years), very special module-theoretic results generalized in lattices (e. g. , purity in Chapter 9 and several dimensions in Chapter 13, to be found mostly in [27], respectively, [34] and [18]) and some new con cepts (e. g.

Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups

Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups
Author: John Conway
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 778
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1475765681

The third edition of this definitive and popular book continues to pursue the question: what is the most efficient way to pack a large number of equal spheres in n-dimensional Euclidean space? The authors also examine such related issues as the kissing number problem, the covering problem, the quantizing problem, and the classification of lattices and quadratic forms. There is also a description of the applications of these questions to other areas of mathematics and science such as number theory, coding theory, group theory, analogue-to-digital conversion and data compression, n-dimensional crystallography, dual theory and superstring theory in physics. New and of special interest is a report on some recent developments in the field, and an updated and enlarged supplementary bibliography with over 800 items.