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A Note on Projecting the Cubic Lattice

Number Theory 2014-09-17 v4

Abstract

It is shown that, given any (n-1)-dimensional lattice L, there is a vector v in Z^n such that the projection of Z^n onto v^perp is arbitrarily close to L. The problem arises in attempting to find the largest cylinder anchored at two points of Z^n and containing no other points of Z^n.

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@article{arxiv.1004.3072,
  title  = {A Note on Projecting the Cubic Lattice},
  author = {N. J. A. Sloane and Vinay A. Vaishampayan and Sueli I. R. Costa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.3072},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

6 pages, 0 figures. Revised Apr 24 2010 because there was an error in the proof of Prop. 3. Revised May 25 2010 because the roles of A and A_v had been swapped in (1) and (3). Revised Jul 14 2010 to clarify choice of basis for projected lattice

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