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The Random Permutation Set (RPS) is a new type of set proposed recently, which can be regarded as the generalization of evidence theory. To measure the uncertainty of RPS, the entropy of RPS and its corresponding maximum entropy have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Jiefeng Zhou , Zhen Li , Kang Hao Cheong , Yong Deng

In 2021, Ordentlich, Regev and Weiss made a breakthrough that the lattice covering density of any $n$-dimensional convex body is upper bounded by $cn^{2}$, improving on the best previous bound established by Rogers in 1959. However, for the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Matthias Schymura , Jun Wang , Fei Xue

Consider a random set of points on the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^d$, which can be either uniformly sampled or a Poisson point process. Its convex hull is a random inscribed polytope, whose boundary approximates the sphere. We focus on the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Arseniy Akopyan , Herbert Edelsbrunner , Anton Nikitenko

We develop a simple analytical theory that relates dense sphere packings in a cylinder to corresponding disk packings on its surface. It applies for ratios R=D/d (where d and D are the diameters of the hard spheres and the bounding…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 Adil Mughal , Ho Kei Chan , Denis Weaire

We prove entropy rigidity for finite volume strictly convex projective manifolds in dimensions $\geq 3$, generalizing the work of arXiv:1708.03983 to the finite volume setting. The rigidity theorem uses the techniques of Besson, Courtois,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-25 Harrison Bray , David Constantine

Motivated by a recently identified severe discrepancy between a static and a dynamic theory of glasses, we numerically investigate the behavior of dense hard spheres in spatial dimensions 3 to 12. Our results are consistent with the static…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-10-28 Patrick Charbonneau , Atsushi Ikeda , Giorgio Parisi , Francesco Zamponi

Studies of random close packing of spheres have advanced our knowledge about the structure of systems such as liquids, glasses, emulsions, granular media, and amorphous solids. When these systems are confined their structural properties…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-12-17 Kenneth W. Desmond , Eric R. Weeks

We begin with an exact expression for the entropy of a system of hard spheres within the Hamming space. This entropy relies on probability marginals, which are determined by an extended set of Belief Propagation (BP) equations. The BP…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-09-06 Abolfazl Ramezanpour , Saman Moghimi-Araghi

The isoperimetric problem with a density or weighting seeks to enclose prescribed weighted volume with minimum weighted perimeter. According to Chambers' recent proof of the log-convex density conjecture, for many densities on…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Eliot Bongiovanni , Alejandro Diaz , Arjun Kakkar , Nat Sothanaphan

We study density thresholds that force a measurable set $E\subseteq\mathbb{R}^d$ to contain all sufficiently large similar copies of every $n$-point configuration. We prove a lower bound of the form $1-O((\log n)/n)$, which matches the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Vjekoslav Kovač , Adian Anibal Santos Sepčić

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

Using computed x-ray tomography we determine the three dimensional (3d) structure of binary hard sphere mixtures as a function of composition and size ratio of the particles, q. Using a recently introduced four-point correlation function we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-15 Houfei Yuan , Zhen Zhang , Walter Kob , Yujie Wang

Packings of identical objects have fascinated both scientists and laymen alike for centuries, in particular the sphere packings and the packings of identical regular tetrahedra. Mathematicians have tried for centuries to determine the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-07 Chuanming Zong

Random sequential adsorption (RSA) is a time-dependent packing process, in which particles of certain shapes are randomly and sequentially placed into an empty space without overlap. In the infinite-time limit, the density approaches a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-01 G. Zhang

We prove that given a fixed radius $r$, the set of isometry-invariant probability measures supported on ``periodic'' radius $r$-circle packings of the hyperbolic plane is dense in the space of all isometry-invariant probability measures on…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lewis Bowen

Suppose that $\{G_n\}$ is a sequence of finite graphs such that each $G_n$ is the tangency graph of a sphere packing in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Let $\rho_n$ be a uniformly random vertex of $G_n$ and suppose that $(G,\rho)$ is the distributional…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-13 James R. Lee

We calculate the entanglement entropy for a sphere and a massless scalar field in any dimensions. The reduced density matrix is expressed in terms of the infinitesimal generator of conformal transformations keeping the sphere fixed. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 H. Casini , M. Huerta

In the first paper of this series [S. Torquato, J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 136}, 054106 (2012)], analytical results concerning the continuum percolation of overlapping hyperparticles in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$ were obtained,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-08-21 Salvatore Torquato , Yang Jiao

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 note shows an easy way to improve E.H. Smith's packing density bound in $\mathbb{R}^3$ from $0.53835...$ to $0.54755...$ .

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Arkadiy Aliev