Packing twelve spherical caps to maximize tangencies

DOI10.1016/J.CAM.2013.03.036zbMATH Open1292.52019OpenAlexW2129322983MaRDI QIDQ2016417FDOQ2016417

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 20 June 2014

Published in: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cam.2013.03.036

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zbMATH Keywords

linear programmingdiscrete geometrycomputer aided proof

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear programming (90C05) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17)

Cites Work

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Cited In (14)

• Crystallization in the hexagonal lattice for ionic dimers
• On the maximum size packings of disks with kissing radius 3
• Face-centered cubic crystallization of atomistic configurations
• Crystallization in carbon nanostructures
• Configuration spaces of equal spheres touching a given sphere: the twelve spheres problem
• The problem of the twenty-five spheres
• A proof of finite crystallization via stratification
• Maximal fluctuations on periodic lattices: an approach via quantitative Wulff inequalities
• On the number of tubes touching a sphere or a tube
• Extremal problems of circle packings on a sphere and irreducible contact graphs
• Crystallization in two dimensions and a discrete Gauss-Bonnet theorem
• The geometry of \(C_{60}\): a rigorous approach via molecular mechanics
• Finite Crystallization and Wulff shape emergence for ionic compounds in the square lattice
• Some recent results on 2D crystallization for sticky disc models and generalizations for systems of oriented particles

Uses Software

• plantri
• kepler98

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