On distribution of well-rounded sublattices of $\mathbb Z^2$

Details On distribution of well-rounded sublattices of $\mathbb Z^2$ On distribution of well-rounded sublattices of $\mathbb Z^2$

2007-02-21

arxiv.org/abs/math/0702623v2

Journal of Number Theory, vol. 128 no. 8 (2008), pg. 2359-2393

Mathematics

Number Theory

30 pages; changed the title, some corrections/revisions

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A lattice is called well-rounded if its minimal vectors span the corresponding Euclidean space. In this paper we completely describe well-rounded full-rank sublattices of ${\mathbb Z}^2$, as well as their determinant and minima sets. We show that the determinant set has positive density, deriving an explicit lower bound for it, while the minima set has density 0. We also produce formulas for the number of such lattices with a fixed determinant and with a fixed minimum. These formulas are related to the number of divisors of an integer in short intervals and to the number of its representations as a sum of two squares. We investigate the growth of the number of such lattices with a fixed determinant as the determinant grows, exhibiting some determinant sequences on which it is particularly large. To this end, we also study the behavior of the associated zeta function, comparing it to the Dedekind zeta function of Gaussian integers and to the Solomon zeta function of ${\mathbb Z}^2$. Our results extend automatically to well-rounded sublattices of any lattice $A {\mathbb Z}^2$, where A is an element of the real orthogonal group $O_2({\mathbb R})$.

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