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Stream: Sphere packing in 8 dimensions

Topic: Typo in Blueprint


Raphael Appenzeller (Jun 21 2025 at 01:09):

Hi. I started formalizing a part of the definition of the magic functions. I ran into a typo (just a missing -1) in Lemma 7.16 in the blueprint. The last formula there should be

ψS(z)=128H4(z)H2(z)H3(z)2128H2(z)+H3(z)H4(z)2\psi_S(z) = 128 \frac{H_4(z)-H_2(z)}{H_3(z)^2} - 128 \frac{H_2(z) + H_3(z)}{H_4(z)^2}

This can be directly verified by using the formula for ψI(z)\psi_I(z) in the same Lemma, together with the definition of Hi±2S(z)=z2Hi(Sz)H_i |_{\pm 2} S (z)= z^{\mp 2} H_i (Sz) and the formulas in Lemma 6.34.
Or is there another specific form that will be more useful later?
I am not super familiar with git. Should I try to modify sec--fourier-double-zeroes.html myself and push it, or can someone else do the change?

Seewoo Lee (Jun 21 2025 at 01:57):

You're right, that's indeed a typo, you can simply put - in front of the first term though (I was a bit confused for seconds, but basically the same). The original equation is (48) in Viazovska's paper, where all θ10,00,014\theta_{10, 00, 01}^4 are replaced with H2,3,4H_{2,3,4}.
The html files are automatically generated by the blueprint, so you don't touch them but the corresponding latex file. You can make a PR with simply adding - to this line.


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