Exact value of Tammes problem for N=10

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Authors Teruhisa Sugimoto, Masaharu Tanemura

Publication date 6 September 2015

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coverings in algebraic geometry (14E20) Combinatorial aspects of packing and covering (05B40) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12) Plane and spherical trigonometry (educational aspects) (97G60)

Abstract: Let $C_i$ ($,i=1,ldots,N,$) be the $i$-th open spherical cap of angular radius $r$ and let $M_i$ be its center under the condition that none of the spherical caps contains the center of another one in its interior. We consider the upper bound, $r_N$, (not the lower bound !) of $r$ of the case in which the whole spherical surface of a unit sphere is completely covered with $N$ congruent open spherical caps under the condition, sequentially for $i=2,ldots,N-1,$, that $M_i$ is set on the perimeter of $C_{i-1}$, and that each area of the set $(cu{p}_{u=1}^{i-1}{C}_u)cap{C}_i$ becomes maximum. In this paper, for $N=10$, we found out that the solutions of our sequential covering and the solutions of the Tammes problem were strictly correspondent. Especially, we succeeded to obtain the exact value $r_{10}$ for $N=10$.

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