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A conceptual breakthrough in sphere packing

Metric Geometry 2017-04-04 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

This expository paper describes Viazovska's breakthrough solution of the sphere packing problem in eight dimensions, as well as its extension to twenty-four dimensions by Cohn, Kumar, Miller, Radchenko, and Viazovska.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1611.01685,
  title  = {A conceptual breakthrough in sphere packing},
  author = {Henry Cohn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.01685},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

24 pages, 9 figures

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