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Six and Seven Dimensional Non-Lattice Sphere Packings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

John Leech
John Leech*
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University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland
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The densest lattice packings of equal spheres in Euclidean spaces En of n dimensions are known for n ⩽ 8. However, it is not known for any n ⩾ 3 whether there can be any non-lattice sphere packing with density exceeding that of the densest lattice packing. W. Barlow described [1] a non-lattice packing in E3 with the same density as the densest lattice packing, and I described [6] three non-lattice packings in E5 which also have this property.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , April 1969 , pp. 151 - 155
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1969

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