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Counting Co-Cyclic Lattices

Number Theory 2015-05-26 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

There is a well-known asymptotic formula, due to W. M. Schmidt (1968) for the number of full-rank integer lattices of index at most VV in Zn\mathbb{Z}^n. This set of lattices LL can naturally be partitioned with respect to the factor group Zn/L\mathbb{Z}^n/L. Accordingly, we count the number of full-rank integer lattices LZnL \subseteq \mathbb{Z}^n such that Zn/L\mathbb{Z}^n/L is cyclic and of order at most VV, and deduce that these co-cyclic lattices are dominant among all integer lattices: their natural density is (ζ(6)k=4nζ(k))185%\left(\zeta(6) \prod_{k=4}^n \zeta(k)\right)^{-1} \approx 85\%. The problem is motivated by complexity theory, namely worst-case to average-case reductions for lattice problems.

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@article{arxiv.1505.06429,
  title  = {Counting Co-Cyclic Lattices},
  author = {Phong Q. Nguyen and Igor E. Shparlinski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.06429},
  year   = {2015}
}
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