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Classification of quintic eutactic forms

Author(s): Christian Batut.
Journal: Math. Comp. 70 (2001), 395-417.
MSC (2000): Primary 11H55, 11H56; Secondary 11E10
Posted: July 21, 2000
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Abstract: From the classical Voronoi algorithm, we derive an algorithm to classify quadratic positive definite forms by their minimal vectors; we define some new invariants for a class, for which several conjectures are proposed. Applying the algorithm to dimension 5 we obtain the table of the 136 classes in this dimension, we enumerate the 118 eutactic quintic forms, and we verify the Ash formula.


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Additional Information:

Christian Batut
Affiliation: A2X, Mathématiques, Université Bordeaux I, 351, cours de la Libération, 33405 Talence cedex, France
Email: christian.batut@math.u-bordeaux.fr

DOI: 10.1090/S0025-5718-00-01295-3
PII: S 0025-5718(00)01295-3
Keywords: Quadratic form, minimal vectors, eutactic form
Received by editor(s): February 13, 1997
Received by editor(s) in revised form: June 19, 1997
Posted: July 21, 2000
Copyright of article: Copyright 2000, American Mathematical Society


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