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Horoball packings to the totally asymptotic regular simplex in the hyperbolic $n$-space

Metric Geometry 2011-12-12 v1 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

In \cite{Sz11} we have generalized the notion of the simplicial density function for horoballs in the extended hyperbolic space Hˉn, (n2)\bar{\mathbf{H}}^n, ~(n \ge 2), where we have allowed {\it congruent horoballs in different types} centered at the various vertices of a totally asymptotic tetrahedron. By this new aspect, in this paper we study the locally densest horoball packing arrangements and their densities with respect to totally asymptotic regular tetrahedra in hyperbolic nn-space Hˉn\bar{\mathbf{H}}^n extended with its absolute figure, where the ideal centers of horoballs give rise to vertices of a totally asymptotic regular tetrahedron. We will prove that, in this sense, {\it the well known B\"or\"oczky density upper bound for "congruent horoball" packings of Hˉn\bar{\mathbf{H}}^n does not remain valid for n4n\ge4,} but these locally optimal ball arrangements do not have extensions to the whole nn-dimensional hyperbolic space. Moreover, we determine an explicit formula for the density of the above locally optimal horoball packings, allowing horoballs in different types.

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@article{arxiv.1112.1969,
  title  = {Horoball packings to the totally asymptotic regular simplex in the hyperbolic $n$-space},
  author = {Jenő Szirmai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.1969},
  year   = {2011}
}

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14 pages, 3 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1105.4315