Two-dimensional lattice reconstruction from vector lengths
ID: two-dimensional-lattice-reconstruction-from-vector-lengths
The vector-length multiset of a rank-two Euclidean lattice determines it up to an orthogonal map. Let be the shortest nonzero length. Removing two copies of each positive integer multiple of removes one primitive lattice line; the shortest remaining length is the shortest independent-vector length. Those two vectors form a lattice basis: otherwise a nonzero point in the centred basis parallelogram would be an independent lattice vector of length less than . Lattice-point density determines the covolume . The basis Gram matrix then has diagonal entries and absolute off-diagonal entry . This proves two-dimensional spectral rigidity for a flat torus through its dual lattice.
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