English

Kissing number in hyperbolic space

Metric Geometry 2020-03-10 v2 Combinatorics Optimization and Control

Abstract

This paper provides upper and lower bounds on the kissing number of congruent radius r>0r > 0 spheres in Hn\mathbb{H}^n, for n2n\geq 2. For that purpose, the kissing number is replaced by the kissing function κ(n,r)\kappa(n, r) which depends on the radius rr. After we obtain some theoretical lower and upper bounds for κ(n,r)\kappa(n, r), we study their asymptotic behaviour and show, in particular, that limrlogκ(n,r)r=n1\lim_{r\to \infty} \frac{\log \kappa(n,r)}{r} = n-1. Finally, we compare them with the numeric upper bounds obtained by solving a suitable semidefinite program.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1907.00255,
  title  = {Kissing number in hyperbolic space},
  author = {Maria Dostert and Alexander Kolpakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.00255},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Will be merged with arXiv:1910.02715

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