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The extreme coverings of 4-space by spheres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

T. J. Dickson
T. J. Dickson
Affiliation:
University of Western Australia
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The object of this paper is to apply, in the case n = 4, the results of Barnes and Dickson [1] concerning extreme coverings of n-dimensional Euclidean space by equal spheres whose centres form a lattice.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , November 1967 , pp. 490 - 496
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1967

References

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