Overview
- Long-awaited authoritative reference on this beautiful subject at the interface of geometry, number theory, coding theory and group theory
- Complement to J.H. Conway and N.J.A. Sloane "Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups" (Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, Vol. 290)
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften (GL, volume 327)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Lattices are discrete subgroups of maximal rank in a Euclidean space. To each such geometrical object, we can attach a canonical sphere packing which, assuming some regularity, has a density. The question of estimating the highest possible density of a sphere packing in a given dimension is a fascinating and difficult problem: the answer is known only up to dimension 3.
This book thus discusses a beautiful and central problem in mathematics, which involves geometry, number theory, coding theory and group theory, centering on the study of extreme lattices, i.e. those on which the density attains a local maximum, and on the so-called perfection property.
Written by a leader in the field, it is closely related to, though disjoint in content from, the classic book by J.H. Conway and N.J.A. Sloane, Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups, published in the same series as vol. 290.
Every chapter except the first and the last contains numerous exercises. For simplicity those chapters involving heavy computational methods contain only few exercises. It includes appendices on Semi-Simple Algebras and Quaternions and Strongly Perfect Lattices.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"It is worth saying at the outset that Perfect lattices in Euclidean spaces is a state-of-the-art research monograph (with exercises) by one of the leading experts in this rapidly developing field … . Martinet’s book appears in the same Springer series as Conway and Sloane’s epochal Sphere packings, lattices and groups and it will be similarly appreciated by researchers in this area as a carefully written, historically aware and authoritative companion volume focusing on local methods in lattice theory." (Nick Lord, The Mathematical Gazette, Vol. 88 (512), 2004)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Perfect Lattices in Euclidean Spaces
Authors: Jacques Martinet
Series Title: Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05167-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-44236-3Published: 10 December 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07921-4Published: 01 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-05167-2Published: 09 March 2013
Series ISSN: 0072-7830
Series E-ISSN: 2196-9701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 526
Topics: Geometry, Number Theory, Combinatorics