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Building on Viazovska's recent solution of the sphere packing problem in eight dimensions, we prove that the Leech lattice is the densest packing of congruent spheres in twenty-four dimensions and that it is the unique optimal periodic…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Henry Cohn , Abhinav Kumar , Stephen D. Miller , Danylo Radchenko , Maryna Viazovska

Dense hard-particle packings are intimately related to the structure of low-temperature phases of matter and are useful models of heterogeneous materials and granular media. Most studies of the densest packings in three dimensions have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Yang Jiao , Frank Stillinger , Sal Torquato

Symbolic and graphical tools, such as Mathematica, enable precise visualization and analysis of void spaces in sphere packings. In the cubic close packing (CCP, or face-centred cubic packing; FCC) arrangement these voids can be partitioned…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Philip W. Kuchel

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

For the binary discs packed in two dimensions, the packing fraction of disc assembly becomes lower than that of the monodisperse system when the size ratio is close to unity. We show that the suppressed packing fraction is caused by an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-10-24 Takashi Odagaki , Tsuyoshi Okubo , Ryusei Ogata , Keiji Okazaki

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

We introduce a generalization of the well-known random sequential addition (RSA) process for hard spheres in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$. We show that all of the $n$-particle correlation functions of this nonequilibrium…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Torquato , F. H. Stillinger

Define a body A to be able to hide behind a body B if the orthogonal projection of B contains a translation of the corresponding orthogonal projection of A in every direction. In two dimensions, it is easy to observe that there exist two…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Christina Chen

1) We present new lattice sphere packings in Euclid spaces of many dimensions in the range 3332-4096, which are denser than known densest Mrodell-Weil lattice sphere packings in these dimensions. Moreover it is proved that if there were…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-06-01 Hao Chen

The problem of bounding of the distance between the two bodies of volume $\varepsilon$ located inside the $n$-dimensional body $B$ of unit volume where $n \to \infty$ is considered. In some cases such distances are bounded by function…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-24 Fyodor Ivlev

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

This paper encompasses the mathematical derivations of the analytic and generalized formula and recurrence relations to find out the radii of n umber of circles inscribed or packed in the plane region bounded by circular arcs (including…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Harish Chandra Rajpoot

We continue the study of optimal chordal packings, with emphasis on packing subspaces of dimension greater than one. Following a principle outlined in a previous work, where the authors use maximal affine block designs and maximal sets of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Peter G. Casazza , John I. Haas , Joshua Stueck , Tin T. Tran

Packing problems, which ask how to arrange a collection of objects in space to meet certain criteria, are important in a great many physical and biological systems, where geometrical arrangements at small scales control behaviour at larger…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-23 Miranda C. Holmes-Cerfon

The determination of the densest packings of regular tetrahedra (one of the five Platonic solids) is attracting great attention as evidenced by the rapid pace at which packing records are being broken and the fascinating packing structures…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-01-02 S. Torquato , Y. Jiao

Packings of hard polyhedra have been studied for centuries due to their mathematical aesthetic and more recently for their applications in fields such as nanoscience, granular and colloidal matter, and biology. In all these fields, particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-03-10 Elizabeth R. Chen , Daphne Klotsa , Michael Engel , Pablo F. Damasceno , Sharon C. Glotzer

The Kepler conjecture asserts that no packing of congruent balls in three-dimensional Euclidean space has density greater than that of the face-centered cubic packing. The original proof, announced in 1998 and published in 2006, is long and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-03 Thomas C. Hales , John Harrison , Sean McLaughlin , Tobias Nipkow , Steven Obua , Roland Zumkeller

In this paper we give a geometric argument for bounding the diameter of a connected compact surface (with boundary) of arbitrary codimension in Euclidean space in terms of Topping's diameter bound for closed surfaces (without boundary). The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-11 Tatsuya Miura

Particle packing problems have fascinated people since the dawn of civilization, and continue to intrigue mathematicians and scientists. Resurgent interest has been spurred by the recent proof of Kepler's conjecture: the face-centered cubic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-01-05 Aleksandar Donev , Frank H. Stillinger , P. M. Chaikin , Salvatore Torquato

The structure of the densest crystal packings is determined for a variety of concave shapes in 2D constructed by the overlap of two or three disks. The maximum contact number per particle pair is defined and proposed as a useful means of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-13 Cerridwen Jennings , Malcolm Ramsay , Toby Hudson , Peter Harrowell