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The second and fourth authors have conjectured that a certain hollow tetrahedron $\Delta$ of width $2+\sqrt2$ attains the maximum lattice width among all three-dimensional convex bodies. We here prove a local version of this conjecture:…

Witsenhausen's problem asks for the maximum fraction $\alpha_n$ of the $n$-dimensional unit sphere that can be covered by a measurable set containing no pairs of orthogonal points. The best upper bounds for $\alpha_n$ are given by…

In the first paper of this series, we constructed a family of lattices in dimensions 2^{n+1} for positive integers n, and proved that the associated lattice packings of spheres equal or exceed the previous records for several values of n.…

It is well known that the lattice packing density and the lattice covering density of a triangle are $\frac{2}{3}$ and $\frac{3}{2}$ respectively. We also know that the lattices that attain these densities both are unique. Let…

We determine the asymptotic behavior of the entropy of full coverings of a $L \times M$ square lattice by rods of size $k\times 1$ and $1\times k$, in the limit of large $k$. We show that full coverage is possible only if at least one of…

We consider a 2D smectics model \begin{equation*} E_{\epsilon }\left( u\right) =\frac{1}{2}\int_\Omega \frac{1}{\varepsilon }\left( u_{z}-\frac{1% }{2}u_{x}^{2}\right) ^{2}+\varepsilon \left( u_{xx}\right) ^{2}dx\,dz. \end{equation*} For…

We present a new lower bound on the Bowen-Radin maximal density of radius-R ball packings in the m-dimensional hyperbolic space, improving on the basic covering bound by factor \Omega(m(R+\ln m)) as m tends to infinity. This is done by…

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…

We establish a lower bound for the surface area of a closed, convex hypersurface in Euclidean space in terms of its displacement under continuous maps. As a result, a hypothesized lower bound for the volume of a Riemannian $n$-sphere,…

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^2$ be a bounded domain of class $C^{2+\alpha}$, $0<\alpha<1$. We show that if $u$ is the maximal solution of $\Delta u = 4\exp(2u)$, which tends to $+\infty$ as $(x,y)\to\partial\Omega$, then the hyperbolic…

In this work we establish some rigidity results for Serrin's overdetermined problem \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{cll} - \Delta u=f(u) & \text{in}& \Omega,\newline u > 0& \text{in} & \Omega,\newline u=0 & \text{on} & \partial…

We briefly review known results on upper bounds for the minimal domination number $\gamma_n$ of a hypercube of dimension $n$, then present a new method for constructing dominating sets. Write $n =2^{\hat{n}}-1 +{\check{n}}$ with $0\leq…

We study Serrin's overdetermined boundary value problem \begin{equation*} -\Delta_{S^N}\, u=1 \quad \text{ in $\Omega$},\qquad u=0, \; \partial_\eta u=\textrm{const} \quad \text{on $\partial \Omega$} \end{equation*} in subdomains $\Omega$…

Let $\Lambda$ be any integral lattice in Euclidean space. It has been shown that for every integer $n>0$, there is a hypersphere that passes through exactly $n$ points of $\Lambda$. Using this result, we introduce new lattice invariants and…

In this paper we extend Alexandrov's sphere theorems for higher-order mean curvature functions to $ W^{2,n} $-regular hypersurfaces under a general degenerate elliptic condition. The proof is based on the extension of the Montiel-Ros…

A central problem in discrete geometry, known as Hadwiger's covering problem, asks what the smallest natural number $N\left(n\right)$ is such that every convex body in ${\mathbb R}^{n}$ can be covered by a union of the interiors of at most…

A sphere packing bound (SPB) with a prefactor that is polynomial in the block length $n$ is established for codes on a length $n$ product channel $W_{[1,n]}$ assuming that the maximum order $1/2$ Renyi capacity among the component channels,…

It is proved that the set of scattering amplitudes $\{A(\beta, \alpha, k)\}_{\forall \alpha \in S^2}$, known for all $\beta\in S^2$, where $S^2$ is the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^3$, $k>0$ is fixed, $k^2$ is not a Dirichlet eigenvalue of…

We have performed a NLTE analysis of the infrared oxygen triplet for a large number of cepheid spectra obtained with the Hobby-Eberly telescope. These data were combined with our previous NLTE results for the stars observed with Max Planck…

The maximal density of a measurable subset of R^n avoiding Euclidean distance1 is unknown except in the trivial case of dimension 1. In this paper, we consider thecase of a distance associated to a polytope that tiles space, where it is…