Self-similar space-filling sphere packings in three and four dimensions

DOI10.1142/S0218348X18500226MaRDI QIDQ4959947zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 7 April 2020

Published in Fractals (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08391

zbMATH Keywords

packing of spheresself-similar packingspace-filling packingfour-dimensional packingfractal packing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fractals (28A80) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17)

Abstract: Inversive geometry can be used to generate exactly self-similar space-filling sphere packings. We present a construction method in two dimensions and generalize it to search for packings in higher dimensions. We newly discover 29 three-dimensional and 13 four-dimensional topologies of which 10 and 5, respectively, are bearings. To distinguish and characterize the packing topologies, we numerically estimate their fractal dimensions and we analyze their contact networks.

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