The successive minima 
of an origin-symmetric convex body 
with respect to a full-rank point
lattice 
measure the scales needed to obtain independent lattice
points. The 
th
successive minimum is the least 
such that 
contains 
linearly independent
points of 
.
The convex body is assumed compact,
with the origin in its interior
(Betke et al. 1993, Aliev and Henk 2023).
For a nonsymmetric convex body 
, lattice-point inequalities often use the successive minima
of its symmetrized difference body 
. Here 
denotes a Minkowski
sum with 
,
rather than set-theoretic subtraction.
