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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

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