A Review of the packing problem

DOI10.1080/03610928608829274MaRDI QIDQ3742406zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors H. Solomon, Howard J. Weiner

Publication date 1986

Published in Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03610928608829274

zbMATH Keywords

packing densityPalasti conjecturerandom packing density of moleculessequential random packing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random convex sets and integral geometry (aspects of convex geometry) (52A22) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17) Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05)

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