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 #
TauCeti.IntegralLattice.IntermediateCarrier.discriminantOrthogonalQuotientIsometry: the isometryA_M ≅ H⊥ / Hof finite quadratic modules.TauCeti.IntegralLattice.IntermediateCarrier.discriminantOrthogonalQuotientIsometry_mk: its value on the class of a vector ofMᵛ.TauCeti.IntegralLattice.IntermediateCarrier.natCard_orthogonalQuotient: the order ofH⊥ / His the discriminant ofM.TauCeti.IntegralLattice.IntermediateCarrier.subsingleton_orthogonalQuotient_iff_isUnimodular:Mis unimodular exactly whenH⊥ / His trivial.TauCeti.IntegralLattice.Isometry.discriminantOrthogonalQuotientIsometry_naturality: the comparison isometry is natural under a lattice isometry.TauCeti.IntegralLattice.discriminantOrthogonalQuotientIsometryOfSubgroup: the same isometry read asA_(L_H) ≅ H⊥ / Hfor a quadratic-isotropic subgroupHofA_L.
References #
- V. V. Nikulin, Integral symmetric bilinear forms and some of their applications, §1.4,
Proposition 1.4.1, stated there in the full-norm
ℚ/2ℤconvention. - W. Ebeling, Lattices and Codes, Chapter 1.
TauCetiRoadmap/IntegralLattices/README.md, Layer 4.
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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Instances For
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 order of H⊥ / H is the discriminant of the overlattice.
An even overlattice is unimodular exactly when H⊥ / H is trivial.
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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Instances For
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.