Densest packing of translates of the union of two circles (Q1084676)
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Densest packing of translates of the union of two circles (English)
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1986
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Let \(d(u)\) (resp. \(\bar d(u))\) denote the density of the densest packing (resp. lattice packing) of translates of the domain u. An open conjecture is that if u is the union of two convex domains having a point in common, then \(d(u)=\bar d(u)\). The author proves this in the case where u is the union of two unit-radius circular discs whose centers have distance at most 2. The paper closes with two conjectures --- one for lattice packings of translates of unions of unit discs, the other for packings of congruent copies of a domain.
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density
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lattice packings of translates
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