McMullen, Curtis2009-12-212005McMullen, Curtis T. 2005. Minkowski’s conjecture, well-rounded lattices and topological dimension. Journal of the American Mathematical Society 18: 711-734. Revised 2007.0894-03471088-6834http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3446013Let A ⊂ SLn(R) be the diagonal subgroup, and identify SLn(R)/SLn(Z)with the space of unimodular lattices in Rn. In this paper we show that the closure of any bounded orbit A • L ⊂ SLn(R)/SLn(Z)meets the set of well-rounded lattices. This assertion implies Minkowski's conjecture for n=6 and yields bounds for the density of algebraic integers in totally real sextic fields. The proof is based on the theory of topological dimension, as reflected in the combinatorics of open covers of Rn and Tn.en-USJournal Article2009-12-2110.1090/S0894-0347-05-00483-2