Some properties of optimal functions for sphere packing in dimensions 8 and 24
Metric Geometry
2016-03-16 v1
Abstract
We study some sequences of functions of one real variable and conjecture that they converge uniformly to functions with certain positivity and growth properties. Our conjectures imply a conjecture of Cohn and Elkies, which in turn implies the complete solution to the sphere packing problem in dimensions 8 and 24. We give numerical evidence for these conjectures as well as some arithmetic properties of the hypothetical limiting functions. The conjectures are of greatest interest in dimension 24, in light of Viazovska's recent solution to the Cohn-Elkies conjecture (and consequently the sphere packing problem) in dimension 8.
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@article{arxiv.1603.04759,
title = {Some properties of optimal functions for sphere packing in dimensions 8 and 24},
author = {Henry Cohn and Stephen D. Miller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.04759},
year = {2016}
}
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23 pages, 4 figures