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This paper focuses on curves and surfaces of constant width, with some additional results about general ovals. We emphasize the use of Fourier series to derive properties, some of which are known. Amongst other results, we show that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-28 Howard L. Resnikoff

Let $\mathcal{P}$ be a packing of circular disks of radius $\rho>0$ in the Euclidean, spherical, or hyperbolic plane. Let $0\leq\lambda\leq\rho$. We say that $\mathcal{P}$ is a $\lambda$-separable packing of circular disks of radius $\rho$…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Károly Bezdek , Zsolt Lángi

Packing problems have been of great interest in many diverse contexts for many centuries. The optimal packing of identical objects has been often invoked to understand the nature of low temperature phases of matter. In celebrated work,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Antonio Trovato , Trinh X. Hoang , Jayanth R. Banavar , Amos Maritan

We prove that for all fixed $p > 2$, the translative packing density of unit $\ell_p$-balls in $\mathbb{R}^n$ is at most $2^{(\gamma_p + o(1))n}$ with $\gamma_p < - 1/p$. This is the first exponential improvement in high dimensions since…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Ashwin Sah , Mehtaab Sawhney , David Stoner , Yufei Zhao

We construct the densest known two-dimensional packings of superdisks in the plane whose shapes are defined by |x^(2p) + y^(2p)| <= 1, which contains both convex-shaped particles (p > 0.5, with the circular-disk case p = 1) and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Jiao , F. H. Stillinger , S. Torquato

This work continues the study started in \cite{Povolotsky2021}, where the exact densities of loops in the O(1) dense loop model on an infinite strip of the square lattice with periodic boundary conditions were obtained. These densities are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 A. M. Povolotsky

John E. Littlewood posted the question {\em ``Is it possible in 3-space for seven infinite circular cylinders of unit radius each to touch all the others? Seven is the number suggested by counting constants.''} Boz\'oki, Lee, and R\'onyai…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Jozsef Solymosi , Josh Zahl

The sphere packing problem asks for the densest packing of unit balls in d-dimensional Euclidean space. This problem has its roots in geometry, number theory and it is part of Hilbert's 18th problem. In 1958 C. A. Rogers proved a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Karoly Bezdek

In this paper the smallest or optimal dimensions of a Halbach cylinder of a finite length for a given sample volume and desired flux density are determined using numerical modeling and parameter variation. A sample volume that is centered…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-10-03 R. Bjørk

We study the problem of high-dimensional multiple packing in Euclidean space. Multiple packing is a natural generalization of sphere packing and is defined as follows. Let $ N>0 $ and $ L\in\mathbb{Z}_{\ge2} $. A multiple packing is a set…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Yihan Zhang , Shashank Vatedka

The rich variety of densest columnar structures of identical hard spheres inside a cylinder can surprisingly be constructed from a simple and computationally fast sequential deposition of cylinder-touching spheres, if the cylinder-to-sphere…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ho-Kei Chan

We use computational experiments to find the rectangles of minimum perimeter into which a given number n of non-overlapping congruent circles can be packed. No assumption is made on the shape of the rectangles. In many of the packings…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-03 Boris D. Lubachevsky , Ronald L. Graham

The problem of electromagnetic scattering by cylinders is an old problem that has been studied in many configurations. The present publication provides a theoretical study on a not yet investigated general case: the set of finite metallic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Matthieu Elineau , Lucille Kuhler , Alexandre Chabory

We prove a lower bound on the entropy of sphere packings of $\mathbb R^d$ of density $\Theta(d \cdot 2^{-d})$. The entropy measures how plentiful such packings are, and our result is significantly stronger than the trivial lower bound that…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-04 Matthew Jenssen , Felix Joos , Will Perkins

We define three-point bounds for sphere packing that refine the linear programming bound, and we compute these bounds numerically using semidefinite programming by choosing a truncation radius for the three-point function. As a result, we…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Henry Cohn , David de Laat , Andrew Salmon

We consider the problem of packing congruent circles with the maximum radius in a unit square as a mathematical optimization problem. Due to the presence of non-overlapping constraints, this problem is a notoriously difficult nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Aida Khajavirad

We obtain an asymptotic formula for the number of circles of curvature at most T in any given bounded Apollonian circle packing. For an integral packing, we obtain the upper bounds for the number of circles with prime curvature as well as…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-12-14 Alex Kontorovich , Hee Oh

The ball (or sphere) packing problem with equal balls, without any symmetry assumption, in a $3$-dimensional space of constant curvature was settled by B\"or\"oczky and Florian for the hyperbolic space $\HYP$ in \cite{BF64} and by proving…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-09 Jen{\H}o Szirmai

The article presents the mathematical sequences describing circle packing densities in four different geometric configurations involving a hexagonal lattice based equal circle packing in the Euclidian plane. The calculated sequences take…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Jure Voglar , Aljoša Peperko

Circles of a single size can pack together densely in a hexagonal lattice, but adding in size variety disrupts the order of those packings. We conduct simulations which generate dense random packings of circles with specified size…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 David J. Meer , Isabela Galoustian , Julio Gabriel de Falco Manuel , Eric R. Weeks