Perfect but not generating Delaunay polytopes
Abstract
In his seminal 1951 paper "Extreme forms" Coxeter \cite{cox51} observed that for one can add vectors to the perfect lattice so that the resulting perfect lattice, called by Coxeter, has exactly the same set of minimal vectors. An inhomogeneous analog of the notion of perfect lattice is that of a lattice with a perfect Delaunay polytope: the vertices of a perfect Delaunay polytope are the analogs of minimal vectors in a perfect lattice. We find a new infinite series for and of -dimensional perfect Delaunay polytopes. A remarkable property of this series is that for certain values of and all one can add points to the integer affine span of in such a way that remains a perfect Delaunay polytope in the new lattice. Thus, we have constructed an inhomogeneous analog of the remarkable relationship between and .
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@article{arxiv.0905.4555,
title = {Perfect but not generating Delaunay polytopes},
author = {Mathieu Dutour Sikiric and Konstantin Rybnikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.4555},
year = {2009}
}
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8 pages