Irreducible rootless unimodular lattices generated by vectors of norm $3$

Abstract

The classical ADE classification implies that $E_8$ is the unique irreducible unimodular Euclidean lattice generated by vectors of norm $2$. In sharp contrast, for every positive integer $m$, we construct an irreducible odd unimodular lattice of rank $24m$ and minimum norm $3$ that is generated by its minimal vectors.

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