Glued lattices are better quantizers than K12
Journal article, 2024

40 years ago, Conway and Sloane proposed using the highly symmetrical Coxeter–Todd lattice K12 for quantization, and estimated its second moment. Since then, all published lists identify K12 as the best 12-dimensional lattice quantizer. Surprisingly, K12 is not optimal: we construct two new 12-dimensional lattices with lower normalized second moments. The new lattices are obtained by gluing together products of two 6-dimensional lattices.

Block codes

vector quantization

moment of inertia

glue vectors

Reflection

normalized second moment

Voronoi region

quantization constant

Generators

Physics

Lattices

Coxeter–Todd lattice

gluing theory

mean square error

product lattice

Symmetric matrices

Vectors

lattice theory

quantization error

Author

Erik Agrell

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Daniel Pook-Kolb

Max Planck Society

Bruce Allen

Max Planck Society

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

0018-9448 (ISSN) 1557-9654 (eISSN)

Vol. In Press

Subject Categories

Probability Theory and Statistics

DOI

10.1109/TIT.2024.3398421

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Latest update

5/28/2024