"Leech lattice" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Leech lattices [plural]
Etymology: After mathematician John Leech, who discovered it in 1967. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Leech lattice (plural Leech lattices)
  1. (mathematics) An even unimodular lattice Λ₂₄ in 24-dimensional Euclidean space, which is one of the best models for the problem of finding the maximum possible kissing number for n-dimensional spheres in (n + 1)-dimensional Euclidean space. Categories (topical): Mathematics

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