On contact numbers of totally separable unit sphere packings

DOI10.1016/J.DISC.2015.10.002zbMATH Open1348.52013arXiv1501.07907OpenAlexW2159855713MaRDI QIDQ898124FDOQ898124

István Szalkai, Balázs Szalkai, Károly Bezdek

Publication date: 8 December 2015

Published in: Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Contact numbers are natural extensions of kissing numbers. In this paper we give estimates for the number of contacts in a totally separable packing of n unit balls in Euclidean d-space for all n>1 and d>1.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.07907

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zbMATH Keywords

densityisoperimetric inequalityspherical cap packingtruncated Voronoi celltouching pairsunit sphere packing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17) Combinatorial aspects of packing and covering (05B40) Lattice packing and covering (number-theoretic aspects) (11H31) Packing and covering in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C15)

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