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A uniform stability principle for dual lattices

Number Theory 2018-08-16 v3

Abstract

We prove a highly uniform stability or "almost-near" theorem for dual lattices of lattices LRnL \subseteq \Bbb R^n. More precisely, we show that, for a vector xx from the linear span of a lattice LRnL \subseteq \Bbb R^n, subject to λ1(L)λ>0\lambda_1(L) \ge \lambda > 0, to be ε\varepsilon-close to some vector from the dual lattice LL' of LL, it is enough that the inner products uxu\,x are δ\delta-close (with δ<1/3\delta < 1/3) to some integers for all vectors uLu \in L satisfying ur\| u \| \le r, where r>0r > 0 depends on nn, λ\lambda, δ\delta and ε\varepsilon, only. This generalizes an earlier analogous result proved for integral vector lattices by M. Ma\v{c}aj and the second author. The proof is nonconstructive, using the ultraproduct construction and a slight portion of nonstandard analysis.

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@article{arxiv.1701.02548,
  title  = {A uniform stability principle for dual lattices},
  author = {Martin Vodička and Pavol Zlatoš},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.02548},
  year   = {2018}
}
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