More Optimal Packings of Equal Circles in a Square

نویسندگان

  • Kari J. Nurmela
  • Patric R. J. Östergård
چکیده

The problem of nding the maximum radius of n non-overlapping equal circles in a unit square is considered. A computer-aided method for proving global optimality of such packings is presented. This method is based on recent results by De Groot, Monagan, Peik-ert, and WWrtz. As an example, it is shown how the method can be used to get an optimality proof for the case n = 7, which has not earlier been published.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Discrete & Computational Geometry

دوره 22  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1999