Sphere packings. II

DOI10.1007/PL00009312MaRDI QIDQ1364136zbMATHOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Thomas C. Hales

Publication date 16 March 1998

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9811074

zbMATH Keywords

sphere packingsKepler conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17)

Abstract: An earlier paper describes a program to prove the Kepler conjecture on sphere packings. This paper carries out the second step of that program. A sphere packing leads to a decomposition of $R^3$ into polyhedra. The polyhedra are divided into two classes. The first class of polyhedra, called quasi-regular tetrahedra, have density at most that of a regular tetrahedron. The polyhedra in the remaining class have density at most that of a regular octahedron (about 0.7209).

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