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New Lower Bound for the Optimal Ball Packing Density in Hyperbolic 4-space

Metric Geometry 2014-08-25 v3

Abstract

In this paper we consider ball packings in 44-dimensional hyperbolic space. We show that it is possible to exceed the conjectured 44-dimensional realizable packing density upper bound due to L. Fejes T\'oth (Regular Figures, 1964). We give seven examples of horoball packing configurations that yield higher densities of 0.716448960.71644896\dots, where horoballs are centered at ideal vertices of certain Coxeter simplices, and are invariant under the actions of their respective Coxeter groups.

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@article{arxiv.1401.6084,
  title  = {New Lower Bound for the Optimal Ball Packing Density in Hyperbolic 4-space},
  author = {Robert Thijs Kozma and Jenő Szirmai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.6084},
  year   = {2014}
}

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17 pages, 3 figures

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