The antipode construction for sphere packings

DOI10.1007/S002220050028zbMATH Open0852.52010OpenAlexW4241986102WikidataQ56625971 ScholiaQ56625971MaRDI QIDQ1909574FDOQ1909574

Authors N. J. A. Sloane, J. H. Conway 

Publication date 5 December 1996

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0207182

zbMATH Keywords

transitive groupsphere packingscenter densityaffine symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: A construction for sphere packings is introduced that is parallel to the ``anticode construction for codes. This provides a simple way to view Vardy's recent 20-dimensional sphere packing, and also produces packings in dimensions 22, 44--47 that are denser than any previously known.

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