If. Blake et V. Tarokh, ON THE TRELLIS COMPLEXITY OF THE DENSEST LATTICE PACKINGS IN R(N), SIAM journal on discrete mathematics, 9(4), 1996, pp. 597-601
An inequality relating the trellis complexity of lattices to their dim
ension and Hermite parameter is established. Using this inequality, a
conjecture of Forney is proved indicating that the trellis complexity
of the densest lattice packings in R(n) grows exponentially as a funct
ion of their coding gain.