Self-similar space-filling sphere packings in three and four dimensions
Other Condensed Matter
2016-07-29 v1 Metric Geometry
Abstract
Inversive geometry can be used to generate exactly self-similar space-filling sphere packings. We present a construction method in two dimensions and generalize it to search for packings in higher dimensions. We newly discover 29 three-dimensional and 13 four-dimensional topologies of which 10 and 5, respectively, are bearings. To distinguish and characterize the packing topologies, we numerically estimate their fractal dimensions and we analyze their contact networks.
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@article{arxiv.1607.08391,
title = {Self-similar space-filling sphere packings in three and four dimensions},
author = {D. V. Stäger and H. J. Herrmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.08391},
year = {2016}
}