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Five Dimensional Non-Lattice Sphere Packings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

John Leech
John Leech*
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Computing Department, The University, Glasgow
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The densest lattice packings of spheres in Euclidean spaces En of n dimensions are known for n ≤ 8 (for full n — references see [6]). However, it i s not known for any n ≥ 3 whether there can be any non-lattice sphere packing with density exceeding that of the corresponding densest lattice packing.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , August 1967 , pp. 387 - 393
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1967

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