The status of the Kepler conjecture

DOI10.1007/BF03024356zbMATH Open0844.52018arXivmath/9811078WikidataQ29040394 ScholiaQ29040394MaRDI QIDQ1345650FDOQ1345650

Authors: Thomas C. Hales 

Publication date: 8 March 1995

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This is the eighth and final paper in a series giving a proof of the Kepler conjecture, which asserts that the density of a packing of congruent spheres in three dimensions is never greater than $pi/sqrt18approx\mathrm{0.74048...}$. This is the oldest problem in discrete geometry and is an important part of Hilbert's 18th problem. An example of a packing achieving this density is the face-centered cubic packing. This paper completes the fourth step of the program outlined in math.MG/9811073: A proof that if some standard region has more than four sides, then the star scores less than $8pt$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9811078

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zbMATH Keywords

packing of spheresdensest packingKepler conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17) Combinatorial aspects of packing and covering (05B40)

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