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| author | Prando, Rafael Froner Speziali, Pietro |
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| contents | Function field lattices are an interesting example of algebraically constructed lattices. Their minimum distance is bounded below by a function of the gonality of the underlying function field. Known explicit examples--coming mostly from elliptic and Hermitian curves--typically meet this lower bound. In this paper, we construct, for every integer $n \geqslant 4$, a new family of lattices arising from the Fermat function field $F_n$ and the set of its $3n$ total inflection points. These lattices have rank $3n-1$, and we show that their minimum distance equals $\sqrt{2n}$, thereby exceeding the classical bound $\sqrt{2γ(F_n)} = \sqrt{2(n-1)}$. We also determine their kissing number, which turns out to be independent of $n$, and analyze the structure of the second shortest vectors. Our results provide the first explicit examples of function field lattices of arbitrarily large rank whose minimum distance surpasses the expected bound, offering new geometric features of potential interest for coding-theoretic and cryptographic applications. |
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| spellingShingle | On lattices over Fermat function fields Prando, Rafael Froner Speziali, Pietro Algebraic Geometry Information Theory Number Theory 14G50, 14H05, 94B27, 11H31, 52C07, 52C17 Function field lattices are an interesting example of algebraically constructed lattices. Their minimum distance is bounded below by a function of the gonality of the underlying function field. Known explicit examples--coming mostly from elliptic and Hermitian curves--typically meet this lower bound. In this paper, we construct, for every integer $n \geqslant 4$, a new family of lattices arising from the Fermat function field $F_n$ and the set of its $3n$ total inflection points. These lattices have rank $3n-1$, and we show that their minimum distance equals $\sqrt{2n}$, thereby exceeding the classical bound $\sqrt{2γ(F_n)} = \sqrt{2(n-1)}$. We also determine their kissing number, which turns out to be independent of $n$, and analyze the structure of the second shortest vectors. Our results provide the first explicit examples of function field lattices of arbitrarily large rank whose minimum distance surpasses the expected bound, offering new geometric features of potential interest for coding-theoretic and cryptographic applications. |
| title | On lattices over Fermat function fields |
| topic | Algebraic Geometry Information Theory Number Theory 14G50, 14H05, 94B27, 11H31, 52C07, 52C17 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20316 |