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The height of the Leech lattice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Kok Seng Chua
Kok Seng Chua
Affiliation:
Institute of High Performance Computing, 89C Science Park Drive, #02–11/12 The Rutherfold, Singapore 118261, e-mail: chuaks@ihpc.nus.edu.sg
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Abstract

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We derive explicit formulae for the height of the Leech lattice and give evidence supporting the conjecture that the Leech lattice has minimum height and minimum values of the Epstein zeta function among all 24 dimensional lattices of determinant one.

Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , October 2000 , pp. 243 - 251
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2000

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