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Original Article

The D4 Root System Is Not Universally Optimal

Henry Cohn Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399
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John H. Conway Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1000
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Noam D. Elkies Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Abhinav Kumar Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Pages 313-320 | Published online: 30 Jan 2011

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