Dense periodic packings of tetrahedra with small repeating units

DOI10.1007/S00454-010-9254-3zbMATH Open1202.52018arXiv0910.5226OpenAlexW3100999267MaRDI QIDQ5962349FDOQ5962349

Veit Elser, Yoav Kallus, Simon Gravel

Publication date: 22 September 2010

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

Abstract: We present a one-parameter family of periodic packings of regular tetrahedra, with the packing fraction $100/117approx0.8547$, that are simple in the sense that they are transitive and their repeating units involve only four tetrahedra. The construction of the packings was inspired from results of a numerical search that yielded a similar packing. We present an analytic construction of the packings and a description of their properties. We also present a transitive packing with a repeating unit of two tetrahedra and a packing fraction $frac139+40sqrt10369approx0.7194$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5226

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zbMATH Keywords

polyhedrapackingcrystallographyHilbert problemregular solid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedral combinatorics, branch-and-bound, branch-and-cut (90C57) Lattices and convex bodies in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C07) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17)

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