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== Simple Construction of a Generating Matrix == According to (Nebe, Rains & Sloane 2002), the generator matrix of

    B
    
      W
      
        16
      
    
  

{\displaystyle BW_{16}}

can be constructed in the following way. First, define the matrix

    B
    =
    
      
        (
        
          
            
              
                
                  2
                
              
            
            
              0
            
          
          
            
              1
            
            
              1
            
          
        
        )
      
    
    .
  

{\displaystyle B={\begin{pmatrix}{\sqrt {2}}&0\\1&1\end{pmatrix}}.}

Next, take its 4th tensor power:

      B
      
        ⊗
        4
      
    
    =
    B
    ⊗
    B
    ⊗
    B
    ⊗
    B
    .
  

{\displaystyle B^{\otimes 4}=B\otimes B\otimes B\otimes B.}

Then, apply the homomorphism of Abelian groups

            ϕ
            :
            
              Z
            
            [
            
              
                2
              
            
            ]
          
          
            
            →
            
              Z
            
          
        
        
          
            a
            +
            b
            
              
                2
              
            
          
          
            
            ↦
            a
            +
            b
          
        
      
    
  

{\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}\phi :\mathbb {Z} [{\sqrt {2}}]&\rightarrow \mathbb {Z} \\a+b{\sqrt {2}}&\mapsto a+b\end{aligned}}}

entrywise to the matrix

      B
      
        ⊗
        4
      
    
  

{\displaystyle B^{\otimes 4}}

. The resulting

    16
    ×
    16
  

{\displaystyle 16\times 16}

integer matrix is a generator matrix for the BarnesWall lattice

    B
    
      W
      
        16
      
    
  

{\displaystyle BW_{16}}

.

== Lattice theta function == The lattice theta function for the Barnes Wall lattice

    B
    
      W
      
        16
      
    
  

{\displaystyle BW_{16}}

is known as

              Θ
              
                
                  Λ
                  
                    Barnes-Wall 
                  
                
              
            
            (
            z
            )
          
          
            
            =
            1
            
              /
            
            2
            
              {
              
                
                  θ
                  
                    2
                  
                
                
                  
                    (
                    q
                    )
                  
                  
                    16
                  
                
                +
                
                  θ
                  
                    3
                  
                
                
                  
                    (
                    q
                    )
                  
                  
                    16
                  
                
                +
                
                  θ
                  
                    4
                  
                
                
                  
                    (
                    
                      q
                      
                        2
                      
                    
                    )
                  
                  
                    16
                  
                
                +
                30
                
                  θ
                  
                    2
                  
                
                
                  
                    (
                    q
                    )
                  
                  
                    8
                  
                
                
                  θ
                  
                    3
                  
                
                
                  
                    (
                    q
                    )
                  
                  
                    8
                  
                
              
              }
            
          
        
        
          
          
            
            =
            1
            +
            4320
            
              q
              
                2
              
            
            +
            61440
            
              q
              
                3
              
            
            +
            ⋯
          
        
      
    
  

{\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}\Theta _{\Lambda _{\text{Barnes-Wall }}}(z)&=1/2\left\{\theta _{2}\left(q\right)^{16}+\theta _{3}\left(q\right)^{16}+\theta _{4}\left(q^{2}\right)^{16}+30\theta _{2}\left(q\right)^{8}\theta _{3}\left(q\right)^{8}\right\}\\&=1+4320q^{2}+61440q^{3}+\cdots \end{aligned}}}

where the thetas are Jacobi theta functions:

              θ
              
                2
              
            
            (
            q
            )
            =
            
              ∑
              
                n
                =
                
                ∞
              
              
                ∞
              
            
            
              q
              
                (
                n
                +
                1
                
                  /
                
                2
                
                  )
                  
                    2
                  
                
              
            
          
        
        
          
          
            
              θ
              
                3
              
            
            (
            q
            )
            =
            
              ∑
              
                n
                =
                
                ∞
              
              
                ∞
              
            
            
              q
              
                
                  n
                  
                    2
                  
                
              
            
          
        
        
          
          
            
              θ
              
                4
              
            
            (
            q
            )
            =
            
              ∑
              
                n
                =
                
                ∞
              
              
                ∞
              
            
            (
            
            1
            
              )
              
                n
              
            
            
              q
              
                
                  n
                  
                    2
                  
                
              
            
          
        
      
    
  

{\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}&\theta _{2}(q)=\sum _{n=-\infty }^{\infty }q^{(n+1/2)^{2}}\\&\theta _{3}(q)=\sum _{n=-\infty }^{\infty }q^{n^{2}}\\&\theta _{4}(q)=\sum _{n=-\infty }^{\infty }(-1)^{n}q^{n^{2}}\end{aligned}}}

== The number of vectors of each norm in the ==

    B
    
      W
      
        16
      
    
  

{\displaystyle BW_{16}}

The number of vectors

    N
    (
    m
    )
  

{\displaystyle N(m)}

of norm

    m
  

{\displaystyle m}

, as classified by J. H. Conway, is given as follows.

== Notes ==

== References == Barnes, E. S.; Wall, G. E. (1959), "Some extreme forms defined in terms of Abelian groups", J. Austral. Math. Soc., 1 (1): 4763, doi:10.1017/S1446788700025064, MR 0106893 Conway, John Horton; Sloane, Neil J. A. (1999), Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol. 290 (3rd ed.), Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-98585-5, MR 0920369 Scharlau, Rudolf; Venkov, Boris B. (1994), "The genus of the BarnesWall lattice.", Comment. Math. Helv., 69 (2): 322333, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.29.9284, doi:10.1007/BF02564490, MR 1282375 Micciancio, Daniele; Nicolosi, Antonio (2008), "Efficient bounded distance decoders for Barnes-Wall lattices", 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, pp. 24842488, doi:10.1109/ISIT.2008.4595438, ISBN 978-1-4244-2256-2 Nebe, G.; Rains, E. M.; Sloane, N. J. A. (2002). "A Simple Construction for the Barnes-Wall Lattices". arXiv:math/0207186.

== External links == BarnesWall lattice Sloane's lattice catalog