A new lower bound on the surface area of a Voronoi polyhedron (Q2466320)
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A new lower bound on the surface area of a Voronoi polyhedron (English)
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14 January 2008
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It is proved that the minimum surface area of a Voronoi cell in a unit packing in \(\mathbb E^3\) is at least 16.1977. This result provides further support for the strong dodecahedral conjecture according to which the minimum surface area of a Voronoi cell in a 3-dimensional unit ball packing is at least as large as the surface area of a regular dodecahedron of inradius 1, which is about \(16.6508\ldots\).
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strong dodecahedral conjecture
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sphere packings
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surface area
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Voronoi cell
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