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The aim of this paper is to study lattice-like coverings with congruent translation balls and the packings and coverings with a type of translation cylinders in Sol space related to the fundamental lattices. We introduce the notions of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Judit Sajtos , Jenő Szirmai

We study the sphere packing problem in Euclidean space where we impose additional constraints on the separations of the center points. We prove that any sphere packing in dimension $48$, with spheres of radii $r$, such that no two centers…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Felipe Gonçalves , Guilherme Vedana

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 isoperimetric problem for Euclidean space endowed with a continuous density. In dimension one, we characterize isoperimetric regions for a unimodal density. In higher dimensions, we prove existence results and we derive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 César Rosales , Antonio Cañete , Vincent Bayle , Frank Morgan

We show that there exists a lattice covering of $\mathbb{R}^n$ by Eucledian spheres of equal radius with density $O\big(n \ln^{\beta} n \big)$ as $n\to\infty$, where \begin{align*} \beta := \frac{1}{2} \log_2 \left(\frac{8 \pi…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Jun Gao , Xizhi Liu , Oleg Pikhurko , Shumin Sun

Motivated by biological questions, we study configurations of equal-sized disks in the Euclidean plane that neither pack nor cover. Measuring the quality by the probability that a random point lies in exactly one disk, we show that the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Herbert Edelsbrunner , Mabel Iglesias-Ham , Vitaliy Kurlin

We formulate the problem of generating dense packings of nonoverlapping, non-tiling polyhedra within an adaptive fundamental cell subject to periodic boundary conditions as an optimization problem, which we call the Adaptive Shrinking Cell…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Torquato , Y. Jiao

We provide the first known upper bounds for the packing dimension of weighted singular and weighted $\omega$-singular matrices. We also prove upper bounds for these sets when intersected with fractal subsets. The latter results, even in the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Gaurav Aggarwal , Anish Ghosh

The notion of a completely saturated packing [Fejes Toth, Kuperberg and Kuperberg, Highly saturated packings and reduced coverings, Monats. Math. 125 (1998) 127-145] is a sharper version of maximum density, and the analogous notion of a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Greg Kuperberg

We prove upper bounds on the average kissing number $k(\mathcal{P})$ and contact number $C(\mathcal{P})$ of an arbitrary finite non-congruent sphere packing $\mathcal{P}$, and prove an upper bound on the packing density…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-05 Samuel Reid

In this paper we study congruent and non-congruent hyperball (hypersphere) packings of the truncated regular octahedron and cube tilings. These are derived from the Coxeter simplex tilings $\{p,3,4\}$ $(7\le p \in \mathbb{N})$ and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Jenő Szirmai

The average distance of the equal hard spheres is introduced to evaluate the density of a given arrangement. The absolute smallest value is two radii because the spheres can not be closer to each other than their diameter. The absolute…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-12 Jozsef Garai

In this paper we consider ball packings in $4$-dimensional hyperbolic space. We show that it is possible to exceed the conjectured $4$-dimensional realizable packing density upper bound due to L. Fejes T\'oth (Regular Figures, 1964). We…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-25 Robert Thijs Kozma , Jenő Szirmai

Define the superball with radius $r$ and center ${\boldsymbol 0}$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ to be the set $$ \left\{{\boldsymbol x}\in\mathbb{R}^n:\sum_{j=1}^{m}\left(x_{k_j+1}^2+x_{k_j+2}^2+\cdots+x_{k_{j+1}}^2\right)^{p/2}\leq…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Chengfei Xie , Gennian Ge

It was conjectured by Ulam that the ball has the lowest optimal packing fraction out of all convex, three-dimensional solids. Here we prove that any origin-symmetric convex solid of sufficiently small asphericity can be packed at a higher…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Yoav Kallus

We develop an analogue for sphere packing of the linear programming bounds for error-correcting codes, and use it to prove upper bounds for the density of sphere packings, which are the best bounds known at least for dimensions 4 through…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-15 Henry Cohn , Noam Elkies

While there is extensive literature on approximation of convex bodies by inscribed or circumscribed polytopes, much less is known in the case of generally positioned polytopes. Here we give upper and lower bounds for approximation of convex…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-03 Steven D. Hoehner , Carsten Schuett , Elisabeth M. Werner

Packings of regular convex polygons ($n$-gons) that are sufficiently dense have been studied extensively in the context of modeling physical and biological systems as well as discrete and computational geometry. Former results were mainly…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Miloslav Torda , John Y. Goulermas , Vitaliy Kurlin , Graeme M. Day

We study the relationship between local and global density for sphere packings, and in particular the convergence of packing densities in large, compact regions to the Euclidean limit. We axiomatize key properties of sphere packing bounds…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Henry Cohn , Andrew Salmon

The construction of optimal line packings in real or complex Euclidean spaces has shown to be a tantalizingly difficult task, because it includes the problem of finding maximal sets of equiangular lines. In the regime where equiangular…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-18 Bernhard G. Bodmann , John I. Haas