Simply transitive geodesic ball packings to S^2 R space groups generated by glide reflections

DOI10.1007/S10231-013-0324-ZMaRDI QIDQ741306zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jenö Szirmai

Publication date 11 September 2014

Published in Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.0566

zbMATH Keywords

Thurston geometriesgeodesic ball packingsspace groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17) Non-Euclidean differential geometry (53A35) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Tilings in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C22) Geometries with differentiable structure (51H25)

Abstract: The $S^{2}imesR$ geometry can be derived by the direct product of the spherical plane $$ and the real line $$. J. Z. Farkas has classified and given the complete list of the space groups of $S^{2}imesR$. The $S^{2}imesR$ manifolds were classified by E. Moln'ar and J. Z. Farkas by similarity and diffeomorphism. In Szirmai we have studied the geodesic balls and their volumes in $S^{2}imesR$ space, moreover we have introduced the notion of geodesic ball packing and its density and have determined the densest geodesic ball packing for generalized Coxeter space groups of $S^{2}imesR$. In this paper we study the locally optimal ball packings to the $S^{2}imesR$ space groups having Coxeter point groups and at least one of the generators is a glide reflection. We determine the densest simply transitive geodesic ball arrangements for the above space groups, moreover we compute their optimal densities and radii. The density of the densest packing is $approx0.80407553$, may be surprising enough in comparison with the Euclidean result $fracpisqrt18approx0.74048$. E. Moln'ar has shown, that the homogeneous 3-spaces have a unified interpretation in the real projective 3-sphere $$. In our work we shall use this projective model of $S^{2}imesR$ geometry.

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