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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

Using graph-theoretic methods we give a new proof that for all sufficiently large $n$, there exist sphere packings in $\R^n$ of density at least $cn2^{-n}$, exceeding the classical Minkowski bound by a factor linear in $n$. This matches up…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Krivelevich , Simon Litsyn , Alexander Vardy

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

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

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

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

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 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

In this paper we get an explicit lower bound for the radius of a Bergman ball contained in the Dirichlet fundamental polyhedron of a torsion-free discrete group $G\subset PU(n,1)$ acting on complex hyperbolic space. Consequently the volume…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-09 Baohua Xie , Jieyan Wang , Yueping Jiang

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 previous work a probabilistic approach to controlling difficulties of density in hyperbolic space led to a workable notion of optimal density for packings of bodies. In this paper we extend an ergodic theorem of Nevo to provide an…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lewis Bowen , Charles Radin

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

We show that in any $d$-dimensional real normed space, unit balls can be packed with density at least \[\frac{(1-o(1))d\log d}{2^{d+1}},\] improving a result of Schmidt from 1958 by a logarithmic factor and generalizing the recent result of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Carl Schildkraut

Let $\Delta$ be the optimal packing density of $\mathbb R^n$ by unit balls. We show the optimal packing density using two sizes of balls approaches $\Delta + (1 - \Delta) \Delta$ as the ratio of the radii tends to infinity. More generally,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-04 David de Laat

In this paper we derive an explicit lower bound on the volume of a hyperbolic $n$-orbifold for dimensions greater than or equal to four. Our main tool is H. C. Wang's bound on the radius of a ball embedded in the fundamental domain of a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Ilesanmi Adeboye , Guofang Wei

We prove sphere packing density bounds in hyperbolic space (and more generally irreducible symmetric spaces of noncompact type), which were conjectured by Cohn and Zhao and generalize Euclidean bounds by Cohn and Elkies. We work within the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Maximilian Wackenhuth

We prove that the highest density of non-overlapping translates of a given centrally symmetric convex domain relative to its outer parallel domain of given outer radius is attained by a lattice packing in the Euclidean plane. This…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Károly Bezdek , Zsolt Lángi

In this paper, we prove uniform lower bounds on the volume growth of balls in the universal covers of Riemannian surfaces and graphs. More precisely, there exists a constant $\delta>0$ such that if $(M,hyp)$ is a closed hyperbolic surface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-17 Steve Karam

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
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