On the packing of fourteen congruent spheres in a cube

DOI10.1007/S10711-008-9308-3MaRDI QIDQ1027757zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Antal Joós

Publication date 30 June 2009

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-008-9308-3

zbMATH Keywords

dense packings of equal balls in a cubefinite packingpacking by equal balls

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of packing and covering (05B40) Lattice packing and covering (number-theoretic aspects) (11H31) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17)

Review text

The classical problem of finding the configuration of \(n\) points in a unit cube of the 3-dimensional Euclidean space for which the minimum mutual distance is maximal was determined by Schaer, for \(n\leq 10\). In [Math. Mag. 44, 199--208 (1971; Zbl 0228.52004)], \textit{M. Goldberg} has given up to \(n=27\) configurations suspected to be the optimal arrangements. In this paper, the author proves that the maximum of the minimum distance of \(14\) points in the 3-dimensional unit cube is \(\frac{\sqrt 2}{2}\), and at the same time Goldberg's conjecture is proved for \(n=14\).

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