Average Kissing Numbers for Non-congruent Sphere Packings
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1 3 M ay 1 99 4 Average kissing numbers for non - congruent sphere packings
(The appearance of the number of the beast in the lower bound is purely coincidental.) The supremal average kissing number k is defined in any dimension, as are kc, the supremal average kissing number for congruent ball packing, and ks, the maximal kissing number for a single ball surrounded by congruent balls with disjoint interiors. (Clearly, kc ≤ k and kc ≤ ks.) It is interesting that k is a...
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