Abstract:We study the distribution of indecomposable elements in Euclidean lattices. A positive element in a lattice is called indecomposable if it cannot be represented as a sum of two other positive nonzero elements. The set of all indecomposables in a lattice forms the Hilbert basis for the positive lattice semigroup. We classify lattices that contain only finitely many indecomposables versus those that contain infinitely many. In the two-dimensional case, we prove that every positive element in a lattice can be represented as a positive integer linear combination of at most two indecomposables, which is a certain variation of the discrete Carathéodory's property. In the case of lattices coming from fractional ideals in real quadratic number fields, we obtain an explicit counting estimate for the number of indecomposables with bounded norm, showing logarithmic growth.
From: Lenny Fukshansky [view email]
[v1]
Sat, 30 May 2026 19:47:50 UTC (62 KB)
此内容由惯性聚合(RSS阅读器)自动聚合整理，仅供阅读参考。 原文来自 — 版权归原作者所有。