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A lattice without a basis of minimal vectors
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Geometry of numbers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2010
Abstract
It is shown that in all dimensions n ≥ 11 there exists a lattice which is generated by its minimal vectors but in which no set of n minimal vectors forms a basis.
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