On a conjecture of Croft, Falconer and Guy on finite packings

DOI10.1007/BF01188578MaRDI QIDQ1805508zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 18 May 1995

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01188578

zbMATH Keywords

\(n\)-dimensional Euclidean spaceconvex bodydiameterfinite packingsoptimum shapesurface area

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

This article confirms a conjecture of Croft, Falconer and Guy which claims that the optimum shape to minimize the surface area or the diameter of the convex hull of \(m\) non-overlapping translates of a given convex body \(K\) is roughly spherical if \(m\) is large.

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• Packing, covering and tiling in two-dimensional spaces
• Proof of a Packing Conjecture of Bollobás
• The spherical conjecture in Minkowski geometry
• On the Reinhardt conjecture

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