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TauCeti.LinearAlgebra.IntegralLattice.Overlattice.OrthogonalQuotient.Quadratic

The discriminant form of an even overlattice #

Let L be an even nondegenerate integral lattice and let L ≤ M ≤ Lᵛ be an even intermediate carrier, that is an even overlattice of L inside the common rational ambient space. The correspondence of TauCeti.LinearAlgebra.IntegralLattice.Overlattice.Isotropic attaches to M the subgroup H = M / L of the discriminant group A_L = Lᵛ / L, and evenness of M is exactly isotropy of H for the discriminant quadratic form. This file computes the discriminant quadratic module of M itself:

A_M ≅ H⊥ / H,   H = M / L ≤ A_L.

This is the last step of Nikulin's gluing recipe, and it is what identifies the discriminant form of a glued lattice without recomputing a dual lattice from scratch. The proof is the composite

Mᵛ ↪ Lᵛ ↠ A_L,

which lands in H⊥ because the dual of an intermediate carrier corresponds to the orthogonal complement of its subgroup, is surjective onto H⊥ for the same reason, and whose fibre over H is exactly M. The composite therefore descends to an additive bijection A_M ≃ H⊥ / H, and it preserves the half-norm quadratic form because both sides are represented by B(x, x) / 2 modulo ℤ at the same ambient vector x.

Two consequences are recorded. The order of H⊥ / H is the discriminant of M, and M is unimodular exactly when H⊥ / H is trivial — the quotient-side reading of the Lagrangian criterion of TauCeti.LinearAlgebra.IntegralLattice.Overlattice.Dual. The isometry is also restated for the overlattice L_H glued along a quadratic-isotropic subgroup H ≤ A_L, which is the form in which the ADE glue calculations use it.

The comparison is natural. An isometry e : L ≅ L' transports the intermediate carrier M, and also restricts to an isometry of the overlattices themselves; the discriminant subgroups and their orthogonal complements correspond under the induced isometry of discriminant modules, and the square built from the two comparison isometries commutes.

The bilinear analogue, for a merely integral overlattice of a lattice that need not be even, is TauCeti.LinearAlgebra.IntegralLattice.Overlattice.OrthogonalQuotient.Bilinear; the discriminant class of a dual vector of M, which both comparisons are built from, is defined in TauCeti.LinearAlgebra.IntegralLattice.Overlattice.Dual.

Main declarations #

References #

The comparison isometry #

The quadratic value in A_M of the class of a dual vector of M is the ambient half-norm.

The discriminant form of an even overlattice. For an even overlattice L ≤ M ≤ Lᵛ with subgroup H = M / L of the discriminant group of L, the discriminant quadratic module of M is H⊥ / H.

This is Nikulin's Proposition 1.4.1, in the half-norm ℚ/ℤ convention.

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    The representative formula. The comparison isometry sends the class in A_M of a dual vector of M to the class in H⊥ / H of its discriminant class in A_L.

    The quadratic value in H⊥ / H of the image of the class of a dual vector of M is the ambient half-norm.

    The pairing in H⊥ / H of the images of the classes of two dual vectors of M is the ambient form modulo ℤ.

    Numerical consequences #

    The comparison isometry read on subgroups #

    The discriminant form of a glued even overlattice: A_(L_H) ≅ H⊥ / H for a quadratic-isotropic subgroup H of the discriminant group of an even nondegenerate lattice.

    This is the form in which the ADE glue calculations use the comparison isometry.

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      The subgroup-level comparison isometry sends a representative to its discriminant class in H⊥ / H.

      The order of H⊥ / H is the discriminant of the overlattice glued along H.

      Naturality under a lattice isometry #

      Naturality of the comparison isometry A_M ≅ H⊥ / H, on a discriminant class. The equation identifies comparison after transport on A_M with transport after comparison.

      Naturality of the comparison isometry A_M ≅ H⊥ / H. An isometry e : L ≅ L' of even nondegenerate lattices transports an even intermediate carrier P of L to one of L', and the square built from the two comparison isometries, the induced isometry of the discriminant quadratic modules of the two overlattices, and the transported orthogonal quotient commutes.