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Bounds on the covering radius of a lattice

Part of: Geometry of numbers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Michel Deza  and
Viatcheslav Grishukhin
Michel Deza
Affiliation:
Department de Mathématiques et, Laboratoire d'Informatique, Eclo Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris, cedex 05, France.
Viatcheslav Grishukhin
Affiliation:
CEMI RAN, Academy of Sciences of Russia, Krasikova 32, Moscow 117418, Russia.
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Abstract

This paper depends on results of Baranovskii [1], [2]. The covering radius R(L) of an n-dimensional lattice L is the radius of smallest balls with centres at points of L which cover the whole space spanned by L. R(L) is closely related to minimal vectors of classes of the quotient . The convex hull of all minimal vectors of a class Q is a Delaunay polytope P(Q) of dimension ≤, dimension of L. Let be a maximal squared radius of P(Q) of dimension n (of dimension less than n, respectively). If , then . This is the case in the well-known Barnes-Wall and Leech lattices. Otherwise, . This is a refinement of a result of Norton ([3], Ch. 22).

MSC classification

Secondary: 11H31: Lattice packing and covering
Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematika , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , June 1996 , pp. 159 - 164
Copyright
Copyright © University College London 1996

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