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A Minimum Property for Cuboidal Lattice Sums

Number Theory 2025-03-25 v2

Abstract

We analyse a family of lattices considered by Conway and Sloane and show that the corresponding Epstein zeta function attains a local minimum for the body-centred cubic lattice.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2501.05746,
  title  = {A Minimum Property for Cuboidal Lattice Sums},
  author = {Shaun Cooper and Peter Schwerdtfeger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.05746},
  year   = {2025}
}
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