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We study translative arrangements of centrally symmetric convex domains in the plane (resp., of congruent balls in the Euclidean $3$-space) that neither pack nor cover. We define their soft density depending on a soft parameter and prove…

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

We give upper bounds for the density of unit ball packings relative to their outer parallel domains and discuss their connection to contact numbers. Also, packings of soft balls are introduced and upper bounds are given for the fraction of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Karoly Bezdek , Zsolt Langi

In this paper we prove a theorem that provides an upper bound for the density of packings of congruent copies of a given convex body in $\mathbb{R}^n$; this theorem is a generalization of the linear programming bound for sphere packings. We…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-07 Fernando Mário de Oliveira Filho , Frank Vallentin

We give theorems that can be used to upper bound the densities of packings of different spherical caps in the unit sphere and of translates of different convex bodies in Euclidean space. These theorems extend the linear programming bounds…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-26 David de Laat , Fernando Mario de Oliveira Filho , Frank Vallentin

In this paper we determine new upper bounds for the maximal density of translative packings of superballs in three dimensions (unit balls for the $l^p_3$-norm) and of Platonic and Archimedean solids having tetrahedral symmetry. Thereby, we…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Maria Dostert , Cristóbal Guzmán , Fernando Mário de Oliveira Filho , Frank Vallentin

Let $L \subset {\Bbb R}^3$ be the union of unit balls, whose centres lie on the $z$-axis, and are equidistant with distance $2d \in [2, 2\sqrt{2}]$. Then a packing of unit balls in ${\Bbb R}^3$ consisting of translates of $L$ has a density…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-19 K. Böröczky , A. Heppes , E. Makai

We provide, for any $r\in (0,1)$, lower and upper bounds on the maximal density of a packing in the Euclidean plane of discs of radius $1$ and $r$. The lower bounds are mostly folk, but the upper bounds improve the best previously known…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Thomas Fernique

Determining the minimum density of a covering of $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ by Euclidean unit balls as $n\to\infty$ is a major open problem, with the best known results being the lower bound of $\left(\mathrm{e}^{-3/2}+o(1)\right)n$ by Coxeter, Few…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Boris Bukh , Jun Gao , Xizhi Liu , Oleg Pikhurko , Shumin Sun

In hyperbolic space density cannot be defined by a limit as we define it in Euclidean space. We describe the local density bounds for sphere packings and we discuss the different attempts to define optimal arrangements in hyperbolic space.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Gábor Fejes Tóth , Lázló Fejes Tóth , Włodzimierz. Kuperberg

In \cite{Sz17-2} we proved that to each saturated congruent hyperball packing exists a decomposition of $3$-dimensional hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^3$ into truncated tetrahedra. Therefore, in order to get a density upper bound for…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Jenő Szirmai

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

This paper determines the optimal upper bound for the simultaneous packing and covering constants of the two-dimensional centrally symmetric convex domains. It solved a problem opening for more than thirty years.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-14 Chuanming Zong

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 present work surveys problems in $n$-dimensional space with $n$ large. Early development in the study of packing and covering in high dimensions was motivated by the geometry of numbers. Subsequent results, such as the discovery of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Gábor Fejes Tóth

This paper provides the currently best known upper bound on the density of a packing in three-dimensional Euclidean space of two types of spheres whose size ratio is the largest one that allows the insertion of a small sphere in each…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Thomas Fernique , Daria Pchelina

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

In this paper, we study the problem of hyperball (hypersphere) packings in $n$-dimensional hyperbolic space ($n \ge 4$). We prove that to each $n$-dimensional congruent saturated hyperball packing, there is an algorithm to obtain a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Arnasli Yahya , Jenő Szirmai

The sphere packing problem asks for the greatest density of a packing of congruent balls in Euclidean space. The current best upper bound in all sufficiently high dimensions is due to Kabatiansky and Levenshtein in 1978. We revisit their…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Henry Cohn , Yufei Zhao

We present a method to obtain upper bounds on covering numbers. As applications of this method, we reprove and generalize results of Rogers on economically covering Euclidean $n$-space with translates of a convex body, or more generally,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-12 Márton Naszódi

This note initiates an investigation of packing links into a region of Euclidean space to achieve a maximal density subject to geometric constraints. The upper bounds obtained apply only to the class of homotopically essential links and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-31 Michael H. Freedman
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