On contact numbers of totally separable unit sphere packings

DOI10.1016/J.DISC.2015.10.002MaRDI QIDQ898124zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Károly Bezdek, Balázs Szalkai, István Szalkai

Publication date 8 December 2015

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

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

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)

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.

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