Optimally dense packings of hyperbolic space

DOI10.1023/B:GEOM.0000022857.62695.15MaRDI QIDQ1826902zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Charles Radin, Lewis Bowen

Publication date 6 August 2004

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0211417

zbMATH Keywords

densityhyperbolic spacepackings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40) Quasicrystals and aperiodic tilings in discrete geometry (52C23) Circle packings and discrete conformal geometry (52C26)

Abstract: In previous work a probabilistic approach to controlling difficulties of density in hyperbolic space led to a workable notion of optimal density for packings of bodies. In this paper we extend an ergodic theorem of Nevo to provide an appropriate definition of optimal dense packings. Examples are given to illustrate various aspects of the density problem, in particular the shift in emphasis from the analysis of individual packings to spaces of packings.

Review text

The most natural notion of the density of a packing \(P\) in space \(S\) (Euclidean or hyperbolic) is given by \[ \lim_{k\to\infty}\,{\text{vol}(P\cap S_k)\over \text{vol}(S_k)},\tag{\(*\)} \] where \(S_k\) is a sequence of regions of finite volume with \(S_k\subset S_{k+1}\) and \(\bigcup_k S_k= \mathbb{S}\). However, examples show this to be problematic even in Euclidean space. Optimal density is even harder to define, and in hyperbolic space \(\mathbb{H}\) there exists not yet a completely satisfactory definition. In a former paper [Discrete Comput. Geom. 29, No. 1, 23--29 (2003; Zbl 1018.52016)] the authors defined a notion of ``optimal density through the use of probability measures on a space of packings, invariant under the congruence group of \(\mathbb{H}\). But the limit \((*)\) was only proved to exist for a sequence \(S_k\) of expanding spheres centred at a countable set of points. Here, using an extension of Nero's ergodic theorem they can extend their proof to all centres in \(\mathbb{H}\).

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