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Disk Packings which have Non-Extreme Exponents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

David W. Boyd
David W. Boyd*
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University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
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Let U be an open set in the Euclidean plane which has finite area. A complete (or solid) packing of U is a sequence of pairwise disjoint open disks C={Dn}, each contained in U and whose total area equals that of U. A simple osculatory packing of U is one in which the disk Dn has, for each n, the largest radius of disks contained in (S- denotes the closure of the set U.) If rn is the radius of Dn, then the exponent of the packing, e(C, U) is the infimum of real numbers t for which In the sequel we refer to a complete packing simply as a packing.

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Research Article
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Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , September 1972 , pp. 341 - 344
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1972

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