joined by one line, and in 24 dimensions it is the following graph: Each point represents one of the 24 Niemeier lattices, and the lines joining them represent the 24 dimensional odd unimodular lattices with no norm 1 vectors. (Thick lines represent multiple lines.) The number on the right is the Coxeter number of the Niemeier lattice. In 32 dimensions the neighborhood graph has more than a billion vertices. Properties Some of the Niemeier lattices are related to sporadic simple groups. The Leech lattice is acted on by a double cover of the Conway group, and the lattices A124 and A212 are acted on by the Mathieu groups M24 and M12. The Niemeier lattices, other than the Leech lattice, correspond to the deep holes of the Leech lattice. This implies that the affine Dynkin diagrams of the Niemeier lattices can be seen inside the Leech lattice, when two points of the Leech lattice are joined by no lines when they have distance , by 1 line if they have distance , and by a double line if they have distance . Niemeier lattices also correspond to the 24 orbits of primitive norm zero vectors w of the even unimodular Lorentzian lattice II25,1, where the Niemeier lattice corresponding to w is w⊥/w. References English translation in External links Aachen University lattice catalogue Quadratic forms Lattice points