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arxiv: 0901.0970 · v2 · submitted 2009-01-08 · 🧮 math.NT · math.RT

Midwest cousins of Barnes-Wall lattices

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Given a rational lattice and suitable set of linear transformations, we construct a cousin lattice. Sufficient conditions are given for integrality, evenness and unimodularity. When the input is a Barnes-Wall lattice, we get multi-parameter series of cousins. There is a subseries consisting of unimodular lattices which have ranks $2^{d-1}\pm 2^{d-k-1}$, for odd integers $d\ge 3$ and integers $k=1,2, ..., \frac {d-1}2$. Their minimum norms are moderately high: $2^{\lfloor \frac d2 \rfloor -1}$.

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