Sphere Packings, II
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چکیده
An earlier paper describes a program to prove the Kepler conjecture on sphere packings. This paper carries out the second step of that program. A sphere packing leads to a decomposition ofR3 into polyhedra. The polyhedra are divided into two classes. The first class of polyhedra, called quasi-regular tetrahedra, have density at most that of a regular tetrahedron. The polyhedra in the remaining class have density at most that of a regular octahedron (about 0.7209).
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Discrete & Computational Geometry
دوره 18 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1997