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Mathematical optimization for packing problems

Optimization and Control 2016-02-10 v2 Combinatorics Metric Geometry

Abstract

During the last few years several new results on packing problems were obtained using a blend of tools from semidefinite optimization, polynomial optimization, and harmonic analysis. We survey some of these results and the techniques involved, concentrating on geometric packing problems such as the sphere-packing problem or the problem of packing regular tetrahedra in R^3.

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@article{arxiv.1403.1166,
  title  = {Mathematical optimization for packing problems},
  author = {Fernando Mário de Oliveira Filho and Frank Vallentin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.1166},
  year   = {2016}
}

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17 pages, written for the SIAG/OPT Views-and-News, (v2) some updates and corrections

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