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Lorentzian Forms for the Leech Lattice

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The “holy constructions” of Chapter 24 lead to some very simple definitions of the Leech lattice using Lorentzian coordinates.

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  1. J. H. Conway
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Conway, J.H., Sloane, N.J.A. (1988). Lorentzian Forms for 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_26

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