A Breakthrough in Sphere Packing: The Search for Magic Functions
Metric Geometry
2016-09-26 v1
Abstract
This paper is an exposition, written for the Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, about the two recent breakthrough results in the theory of sphere packings. It includes an interview with Henry Cohn, Abhinav Kumar, Stephen D. Miller, and Maryna Viazovska.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1607.02111,
title = {A Breakthrough in Sphere Packing: The Search for Magic Functions},
author = {David de Laat and Frank Vallentin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.02111},
year = {2016}
}
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18 pages