Thin Lattice Coverings

Let ^ be a compact body of positive volume in W, star-shaped with respect to an interior point, taken to be the origin. For subsets Q of R, the functional sup lattices A represents the minimum density with which Q. can be covered by a lattice A of translates of S. We obtain an upper bound on «9L(#, Z ). If the attributes of # are supplemented with convexity, write 3fC instead. We also bound above the classical minimum la nice-covering density of Jtf. No symmetry conditions are imposed on # and Jf.