Remarks on the density of sphere packings in three dimensions

DOI10.1007/BF01303203MaRDI QIDQ684405zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Thomas C. Hales

Publication date 15 September 1993

Published in Combinatorica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01303203

zbMATH Keywords

densitysphere packings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of packing and covering (05B40) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17)

Review text

The author studies the density of sphere packings of spheres of equal radius by using the Delaunay decomposition. A local notion of density for sphere packings in \(\mathbb{R}^ 3\) is defined; this density has a bound which is conjectured to be \(0.740873\dots\), but because of a small perturbation it is \(\pi/\sqrt{18}\). The local measure of density coincides with the actual density for the face-centered cubic and hexagonal-close-packings.

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