A Proof of Fejes Toth's Conjecture on Sphere Packings with Kissing Number Twelve

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Authors: Thomas C. Hales Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 26 September 2012

Abstract: In 1969, Fejes Toth conjectured that in Euclidean 3-space any packing of equal balls such that each ball is touched by twelve others consists of hexagonal layers. This article verifies this conjecture.













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