 Covolume (source code)

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= Covolume
{title2=$\operatorname{covol}(\Lambda)$}

The covolume of a full <Euclidean lattice> is the <Lebesgue measure> of a fundamental parallelepiped in its ambient <inner-product space>. In orthonormal coordinates it is $|\det B|$ for a lattice basis matrix $B$. Scaling the lattice by $t>0$ multiplies the <covolume> by $t^n$; the <dual lattice> has reciprocal <covolume>.

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