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Minkowski's fundamental inequality for reduced positive quadratic forms(II)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

E. S. Barnes
E. S. Barnes
Affiliation:
Vice-Chancellor's OfficeUniversity of Adelaide, South Australia
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Abstract

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A convex polytope D (α) was defined in Barnes (1978) as the set of Minkowski-reduced forms with prescribed diagonal coefficients α1, α2,…αn. A local minimum of the determinant D(f) over D(α) must occur at a vertex of D(α). Here a criterion is obtained for a given vertex to provide a local minimum, completely analogous to Voronoï's criterion for a perfect form to be extreme.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , February 1979 , pp. 1 - 6
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1979

References

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