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The packing density of the regular cross-polytope in Euclidean $n$-space is unknown except in dimensions $2$ and $4$ where it is 1. The only non-trivial upper bound is due to Gravel, Elser, and Kallus (2011) who proved that for $n=3$ the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-09 G. Fejes Tóth , F. Fodor , V. Vígh

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

Let R be a family of n axis-parallel rectangles with packing number p-1, meaning that among any p of the rectangles, there are two with a non-empty intersection. We show that the union complexity of R is at most O(n+p^2), and that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-06 Chaya Keller , Shakhar Smorodinsky

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

In this paper, we consider the isoperimetric problem in the space $\mathbb{R}^N$ with density. Our result states that, if the density f is l.s.c. and converges to a positive limit at infinity, being smaller than this limit far from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-20 Guido De Philippis , Giovanni Franzina , Aldo Pratelli

A packing by a body $K$ is collection of congruent copies of $K$ (in either Euclidean or hyperbolic space) so that no two copies intersect nontrivially in their interiors. A covering by $K$ is a collection of congruent copies of $K$ such…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lewis Bowen

In an old paper of the author the thinnest five-neighbour packing of translates of a convex disc (different from a parallelogram) was determined. The minimal density was $3/7$, and was attained for a certain packing of triangles. In that…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-06 Endre Makai

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

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 densest local packings of N three-dimensional identical nonoverlapping spheres within a radius Rmin(N) of a fixed central sphere of the same size are obtained for selected values of N up to N = 1054. In the predecessor to this paper…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Adam B. Hopkins , Frank H. Stillinger , Salvatore Torquato

After having investigated the densest packings by congruent hyperballs to the regular prism tilings in the $n$-dimensional hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^n$ ($n \in \mathbb{N}, n \ge 3)$ we consider the dual covering problems and determine…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Jenö Szirmai

In this paper the author studies the isoperimetric problem in $\re^n$ with perimeter density $|x|^p$ and volume density $1.$ We settle completely the case $n=2,$ completing a previous work by the author: we characterize the case of equality…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-30 Gyula Csato

Moser asked whether the collection of rectangles of dimensions 1 x 1/2, 1/2 x 1/3, 1/3 x 1/4, ..., whose total area equals 1, can be packed into the unit square without overlap, and whether the collection of squares of side lengths 1/2,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Greg Martin

After the investigation of the congruent and non-congruent hyperball packings related to doubly truncated Coxeter orthoscheme tilings \cite{SzJ1}, we consider the corresponding covering problems. In \cite{MSSz} the authors gave a partial…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Miklós Eper , Jenő Szirmai

We prove that the density of a topologically nontrivial, area-minimizing hypercone with an isolated singularity must be greater than the square root of 2. The Simons' cones show that this is the best possible constant. If one of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-22 Tom Ilmanen , Brian White

in this article a multilayer parking system of size n=3 is studied. We prove that the asymptotic limit of the particle density in the center approaches a maximum of 1/2 in higher layers. This means a significant increase of capacity…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-06-06 Sjoert Fleurke , Aernout C. D. van Enter

We analyze the general problem of determining optimally dense packings, in a Euclidean or hyperbolic space, of congruent copies of some fixed finite set of bodies. We are strongly guided by examples of aperiodic tilings in Euclidean space…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-11 Lewis Bowen , Charles Holton , Charles Radin , Lorenzo Sadun

We prove the non-symmetric Mahler conjecture in dimension three. More precisely, we prove the sharp lower bound \[ \mathcal P(K) \geq \frac{64}{9} \] for every convex body $K \subset \mathbb R^3$, where $\mathcal P(K)$ denotes the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Shibing Chen , Yuanyuan Li , Dongmeng Xi , Zhefeng Xu

We provide a tight result for a fundamental problem arising from packing disks into a circular container: The critical density of packing disks in a disk is 0.5. This implies that any set of (not necessarily equal) disks of total area…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Sándor P. Fekete , Phillip Keldenich , Christian Scheffer

We show for the first time that collectively jammed disordered packings of three-dimensional monodisperse frictionless hard spheres can be produced and tuned using a novel numerical protocol with packing density $\phi$ as low as 0.6. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-01-10 Yang Jiao , Frank H. Stillinger , Sal Torquato