Bounds for solid angles of lattices of rank three

Details Bounds for solid angles of lattices of rank three Bounds for solid angles of lattices of rank three

2010-06-03

arxiv.org/abs/1006.0743v1

Journal of Combinatorial Theory A, vol. 118 no. 2 (2011) pg. 690--701

Mathematics

Metric Geometry

12 pages; to appear in the Journal of Combinatorial Theory A

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We find sharp absolute constants $C_1$ and $C_2$ with the following property: every well-rounded lattice of rank 3 in a Euclidean space has a minimal basis so that the solid angle spanned by these basis vectors lies in the interval $[C_1,C_2]$. In fact, we show that these absolute bounds hold for a larger class of lattices than just well-rounded, and the upper bound holds for all. We state a technical condition on the lattice that may prevent it from satisfying the absolute lower bound on the solid angle, in which case we derive a lower bound in terms of the ratios of successive minima of the lattice. We use this result to show that among all spherical triangles on the unit sphere in $\mathbb R^N$ with vertices on the minimal vectors of a lattice, the smallest possible area is achieved by a configuration of minimal vectors of the (normalized) face centered cubic lattice in $\mathbb R^3$. Such spherical configurations come up in connection with the kissing number problem.

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