New upper bound for lattice covering by spheres
Metric Geometry
2025-08-11 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
We show that there exists a lattice covering of by Eucledian spheres of equal radius with density as , where \begin{align*} \beta := \frac{1}{2} \log_2 \left(\frac{8 \pi \mathrm{e}}{3\sqrt 3}\right)=1.85837...\,. \end{align*} This improves upon the previously best known upper bound by Rogers from 1959 of , where
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@article{arxiv.2508.06446,
title = {New upper bound for lattice covering by spheres},
author = {Jun Gao and Xizhi Liu and Oleg Pikhurko and Shumin Sun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.06446},
year = {2025}
}
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15 pages