Analogs of Steiner's porism and Soddy's hexlet in higher dimensions via spherical codes (Q1791629)

The paper under review deals with configurations of spheres in \(\mathbb R^n\) and provides a clever method for deriving far-reaching multidimensional generalizations of classical results concerning \textit{Steiner's porism} in \(\mathbb R^2\) and \textit{Soddy's hexlet} in \(\mathbb R^3\). The construction is based on the use of kissing arrangements of spheres in \(\mathbb R^n\), spherical packings and spherical codes.