Dense sphere-packings

DOI10.1007/978-3-8348-8173-1_16MaRDI QIDQ2918933zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gabriele Nebe

Publication date 1 October 2012

Published in Facettenreiche Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8348-8173-1_16

zbMATH Keywords

densityerror correctionKepler conjecturekissing numberlatticeLeech packingsignal transmissionsphere packing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Popularization of mathematics (00A09) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17)

Review text

The author introduces some problems of sphere packing to non-mathematicians. After motivating the subject by describing Kepler packings in \(\mathbb R^3\), she gives definitions of metrics, Euclidean and Hamming spaces, balls, ball packings (or sphere packings) and their densities. The use of dense sphere packings for error correction in signal transmission is pointed out. A particular emphasis is on Euclidean sphere packings that are arranged along lattices. Optimal densities of such packings are stated for dimensions \(n \leq 8\) and \(n=24\) and are compared with the case that the underlying lattice is \(\mathbb Z^n\). Finally, symmetries of lattice packings serve as a link to group theory.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 1222.00035].

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