Voronoi candidate conjecture for modular symbols

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Let v=[v1,…,vn]{\mathbf v}=[v_1,\dots,v_n] be a modular symbol with ∥v∥>1\|{\mathbf v}\|>1. Define

b(v)=∑ivivit.b({\mathbf v})=\sum_i v_i v_i^t.

For a top-dimensional cone σ\sigma in the Voronoi decomposition containing b(v)b({\mathbf v}), let vert⁡σ\operatorname{vert}\sigma denote the primitive points corresponding to the face generating σ\sigma, and let cand⁡v\operatorname{cand}{\mathbf v} be the set of nonzero lattice points that can be written as w=∑iqiviw=\sum_i q_i v_i with 0≤∣qi∣<10\leq |q_i|<1. Voronoi candidate conjecture. If σ\sigma is a top-dimensional cone containing b(v)b({\mathbf v}), then

cand⁡v∩vert⁡σ≠∅.\operatorname{cand}{\mathbf v}\cap\operatorname{vert}\sigma\ne\varnothing.

This conjecture would provide a geometrically natural way to choose candidates that reduce modular symbols. It is stated as a conjectural technique for implementing the modular symbol algorithm and is asserted to hold in all dimensions; the paper notes that the Voronoi reduction algorithm has unknown complexity and that the Voronoi decomposition is difficult to determine in general.

References

Primary source

Paul E. Gunnells, “Computing Hecke eigenvalues below the cohomological dimension”, arXiv:math/9811134 (1999).

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