On the existence of completely saturated packings and completely reduced covering
Abstract
A packing by a body is collection of congruent copies of (in either Euclidean or hyperbolic space) so that no two copies intersect nontrivially in their interiors. A covering by is a collection of congruent copies of such that for every point in the space there is copy in the collection containing . A completely saturated packing is one in which it is not possible to replace a finite number of bodies of the packing with a larger number and still remain a packing. A completely reduced covering is one in which it is not possible to replace a finite number of bodies of the covering with a smaller number and still remain a covering. It was conjectured by G. Fejes Toth, G. Kuperberg, and W. Kuperberg that completely saturated packings and commpletely reduced coverings exist for every body in either -dimensional Euclidean or -dimensional hyperbolic space. We prove this conjecture.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0110260,
title = {On the existence of completely saturated packings and completely reduced covering},
author = {Lewis Bowen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0110260},
year = {2007}
}
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14 pages, 1 figure