Meanings
nounNiemeier lattice (plural Niemeier lattices)
plural Niemeier lattices
- mathematicsAny of the 24 positive definite even unimodular lattices of rank 24.
Origin
After mathematician Hans-Volker Niemeier, who classified them in 1973.
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