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We present a first exact study on higher-dimensional packing problems with order constraints. Problems of this type occur naturally in applications such as logistics or computer architecture and can be interpreted as higher-dimensional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sandor P. Fekete , Ekkehard Koehler , Juergen Teich

The structure and spatial statistical properties of amorphous ellipsoid assemblies have profound scientific and industrial significance in many systems, from cell assays to granular materials. This paper uses a fundamental theoretical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-10 F. M. Schaller , H. Punzmann , G. E. Schröder-Turk , M. Saadatfar

The densest binary sphere packings in the alpha-x plane of small to large sphere radius ratio alpha and small sphere relative concentration x have historically been very difficult to determine. Previous research had led to the prediction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Adam B. Hopkins , Frank H. Stillinger , Salvatore Torquato

Given recipe of qualitative, kinetic modelling by geometric methods of three-dimensional dendritic crystals. Characteristic features of the perturbations appearing on the surface of a spherical body, leading to different scenarios of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-05 Alexander S. Prokhoda

What particle shape will generate the highest packing fraction when randomly poured into a container? In order to explore and navigate the enormous search space efficiently, we pair molecular dynamics simulations with artificial evolution.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-21 Leah K. Roth , Heinrich M. Jaeger

Three-dimensional $\mathcal{N} = 4$ superconformal field theories contain 1d topological sectors consisting of twisted linear combinations of half-BPS local operators that can be inserted anywhere along a line. After a conformal mapping to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Pieter Bomans , Silviu Pufu

We decompose sphere partition functions and indices of three-dimensional N=2 gauge theories into a sum of products involving a universal set of "holomorphic blocks". The blocks count BPS states and are in one-to-one correspondence with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-25 Christopher Beem , Tudor Dimofte , Sara Pasquetti

This is the sixth in a series of papers giving a proof of the Kepler conjecture, which asserts that the density of a packing of congruent spheres in three dimensions is never greater than $\pi/\sqrt{18}\approx 0.74048...$. This is the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas C. Hales

We study by numerical simulation the magnetic order in ensembles of randomly packed magnetic spherical particles which, induced by their uniaxial anisotropy in the strong coupling limit, behave as Ising dipoles. We explore the role of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-05 J. J. Alonso , B. Alles , J. G. Malherbe , V. Russier

We study, via the replica method of disordered systems, the packing problem of hard-spheres with a square-well attractive potential when the space dimensionality, d, becomes infinitely large. The phase diagram of the system exhibits…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-12-17 Mauro Sellitto , Francesco Zamponi

Following Thurston's geometrisation picture in dimension three, we study geometric manifolds in a more general setting in arbitrary dimensions, with respect to the following problems: (i) The existence of maps of non-zero degree (domination…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Christoforos Neofytidis

We present the algorithm for generating strictly saturated random sequential adsorption packings built of rounded polygons. It can be used to study various properties of such packings built of a wide variety of different shapes and in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-23 Michał Cieśla , Piotr Kubala , Konrad Kozubek

Thurston's sphere packing on a 3-dimensional manifold is a generalization of Thusrton's circle packing on a surface, the rigidity of which has been open for many years. In this paper, we prove that Thurston's Euclidean sphere packing is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Xiaokai He , Xu Xu

The aim of this paper is to review and discuss qualitatively some results on the properties of amorphous packings of hard spheres that were recently obtained by means of the replica method. The theory gives predictions for the equation of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Zamponi

This work deals with two real scalar fields in two-dimensional spacetime, with the fields coupled to allow the study of localized configurations. We consider models constructed to engender geometric constrictions, and use them to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-08 D. Bazeia , I. Bezerra , R. Menezes

We study dense packings of a large number of congruent non-overlapping circles inside a square by looking for configurations which maximize the packing density, defined as the ratio between the area occupied by the disks and the area of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-23 Paolo Amore , Tenoch Morales

We carry out numerical studies of static packings of frictionless superellipsoidal particles in three spatial dimensions. We consider more than $200$ different particle shapes by varying the three shape parameters that define…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-12-05 Ye Yuan , Kyle VanderWerf , Mark D. Shattuck , Corey S. O'Hern

A three-dimensional X-ray tomography is performed to investigate the internal structure and its evolution of a crumpled aluminum foil. The upper and lower bounds of the internal geometric fractal dimension are determined, which increase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-12-18 Yen-Chih Lin , J. M. Sun , H. W. Yang , C. L. Wang , Yeukuang Hwu , T. M. Hong

Disordered assemblies with maximum packing fraction are studied by discrete element numerical simulation for monodisperse or bidisperse spherical particles, the diameter ratio being set at three. A maximum packing fraction value corresponds…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-23 Jean-Noël Roux , François Chevoir , Fabrice Toussaint

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