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Counterexample to the $l$-modular Belfiore-Sol\'e Conjecture

Information Theory 2014-11-25 v2 math.IT Number Theory

Abstract

We show that the secrecy function conjecture that states that the maximum of the secrecy function of an ll-modular lattice occurs at 1/l1/\sqrt{l} is false, by proving that the 4-modular lattice C(4)=Z2Z2ZC^(4) = \mathbb{Z} \oplus \sqrt{2}\mathbb{Z} \oplus 2\mathbb{Z} fails to satisfy this conjecture. We also indicate how the secrecy function must be modified in the ll-modular case to have a more reasonable chance for it to have a maximum at 1/l1/\sqrt{l}, and show that the conjecture, modified with this new secrecy function, is true for various odd 2-modular lattices.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1409.3188,
  title  = {Counterexample to the $l$-modular Belfiore-Sol\'e Conjecture},
  author = {Anne-Maria Ernvall-Hytönen and B. A. Sethuraman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.3188},
  year   = {2014}
}
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