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Unimodular Lattice


A unimodular lattice is an integral lattice whose Gram matrix has determinant 1 or -1 (Milnor and Husemoller 1973). Thus the lattice equals its dual under the defining bilinear form. A positive definite unimodular point lattice has covolume 1.

Kubischta (2026, pp. 2-3) constructed a positive definite unimodular lattice of rank 37 with minimum squared Euclidean norm 4 and kissing number 35594. A 4-frame in this lattice consists of 37 mutually orthogonal vectors of squared Euclidean norm 4. It gives a Type I self-dual code over Z/4Z of length 37 and minimum Euclidean weight 16. Kubischta reports using ChatGPT in the search for candidate lattices and the exploration of constructions. The paper lists orbit representatives for the 4-frame.


See also

Bilinear Form, Integral Lattice, Point Lattice

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References

Kubischta, E. "An Extremal Unimodular Lattice of Rank 37." 4 Nov 2026. https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07138v1.Milnor, J. and Husemoller, D. Symmetric Bilinear Forms. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 1973. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88330-9.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Unimodular Lattice." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/UnimodularLattice.html

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