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Comment on "Explicit Analytical Solution for Random Close Packing in $d=2$ and $d=3$"

Soft Condensed Matter 2022-07-19 v3 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

I comment on Zaccone, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 128}, 028002 (2022) highlighting a flaw in the derivation that led to a spurious divergent factor. This renders the derivation of the random close packing density invalid.

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@article{arxiv.2204.13901,
  title  = {Comment on "Explicit Analytical Solution for Random Close Packing in $d=2$ and $d=3$"},
  author = {W. Till Kranz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.13901},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Slightly cleaned up the presentation in response to the published Erratum

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