Barnes–Wall lattice

In mathematics, the Barnes–Wall lattice Λ16, discovered by Eric Stephen Barnes and G. E. (Tim) Wall (Barnes & Wall (1959)), is the 16-dimensional positive-definite even integral lattice of discriminant 28 with no norm-2 vectors. It is the sublattice of the Leech lattice fixed by a certain automorphism of order 2, and is similar to the Coxeter–Todd lattice.

The automorphism group of the BarnesWall lattice has order 89181388800 = 221 35 52 7 and has structure 21+8 PSO8+(F2).

The genus of the BarnesWall lattice was described by Scharlau & Venkov (1994) and contains 24 lattices; all the elements other than the BarnesWall lattice have root system of maximal rank 16.

The BarnesWall lattice is described in detail in (Conway & Sloane 1999, section 4.10).

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