Statistics for Kneser p-neighbors

Abstract

Let L and L' be two integral Euclidean lattices in the same genus. We give an asymptotic formula for the number of Kneser p-neighbors of L which are isometric to L', when the prime p goes to infinity. In the case L is unimodular, and if we fix furthermore a subgroup A of L, we also give an asymptotic formula for the number of p-neighbors of L containing A and which are isomorphic to L'. These statements explain numerical observations in the recent classifications of unimodular lattices of rank 26, 27 and 28, by B. Allombert and the author. In an Appendix, O. Ta\"ibi shows how to deduce from Arthur's results the existence of global parameters associated to automorphic representations of definite orthogonal groups over the rationals.