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A Bound for the Covering Radius of the Leech Lattice

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Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups

Part of the book series: Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften ((GL,volume 290))

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This chapter describes a method for bounding the covering radius of a lattice. When applied to the Leech lattice it gives an answer very close to the true value.

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Norton, S.P. (1988). A Bound for the Covering Radius of the Leech Lattice. In: Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol 290. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2016-7_22

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