Voronoi neighbors of Dn lattices

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Mark McConnell, Princeton University

Voronoi defined a tiling of the space of positive definite quadratic forms on Rn.  Each tile is determined by a perfect lattice.  Examples of perfect lattices include the root lattices An and Dn.  We will focus on the tiles that are neighbors of a Dn tile.  These are determined by some simple combinatorics, but there are exponentially many different Dn neighbors, and only a few families of them have been understood for all n.  I will report on two recent results, one due to myself, and one joint work with Noam Elkies.