Cyclic and well-rounded lattices

Abstract

We focus on two important classes of lattices, the well-rounded and the cyclic. We show that every well-rounded lattice in the plane is similar to a cyclic lattice and use this cyclic parametrization to count planar well-rounded similarity classes defined over a fixed number field with respect to height. We then investigate cyclic properties of the irreducible root lattices in arbitrary dimensions, in particular classifying those that are simple cyclic, i.e., generated by rotation shifts of a single vector. Finally, we classify cyclic, simple cyclic and well-rounded cyclic lattices coming from rings of integers of Galois algebraic number fields.