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So far we have been concerned with one lattice at a time. In this chapter we are concerned with properties of sets of lattices. We first must define what is meant by two lattices Λ and M being near to each other; and this is done by means of homogeneous linear transformations. A homogeneous linear transformation X=τx of n-dimensional euclidean space into itself is said to be near to identity transformation if the coefficients τ ij in
are near those of the identity transformation, that is if
and
are all small.
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Cassels, J.W.S. (1997). MAHLER’S compactness theorem. In: An Introduction to the Geometry of Numbers. Classics in Mathematics, vol 99. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-62035-5_6
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