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On Packings of Unequal Spheres in Rn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

D. G. Larman
D. G. Larman*
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University College London, London, W.C.1, England
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Suppose that a sequence of spheres is packed in order of decreasing diameters into the unit cube In of Rn . In recent work (2), I have shown that for n = 2, there exist positive constants K2, s ( = 0.97) such that the area of has an asymptotic lower bound K2(d(Sm))s . Although the methods used were complicated and possibly only viable in two dimensions, it is intuitively clear that such a result should also be true in higher dimensions.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 20 , 1968 , pp. 967 - 969
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1968

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