Sphere Packings

• Main Author: Zong, Chuanming (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Talbot, John (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 1999.
• Series: Universitext
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Number theory.; Combinatorics.; Number Theory.

Sphere Packings is one of the most attractive and challenging subjects in mathematics. Almost 4 centuries ago, Kepler studied the densities of sphere packings and made his famous conjecture. In the course of centuries, many exciting results have been obtained, ingenious methods created, related chal...

Table of Contents:

• The Gregory-Newton Problem and Kepler’s Conjecture
• Positive Definite Quadratic Forms and Lattice Sphere Packings
• Lower Bounds for the Packing Densities of Spheres
• Lower Bounds for the Blocking Numbers and the Kissing Numbers of Spheres
• Sphere Packings Constructed from Codes
• Upper Bounds for the Packing Densities and the Kissing Numbers of Spheres I
• Upper Bounds for the Packing Densities and the Kissing Numbers of Spheres II
• Upper Bounds for the Packing Densities and the Kissing Numbers of Spheres III
• The Kissing Numbers of Spheres in Eight and Twenty-Four Dimensions
• Multiple Sphere Packings
• Holes in Sphere Packings
• Problems of Blocking Light Rays
• Finite Sphere Packings.