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The Covering Of Space By Spheres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

E. S. Barnes
E. S. Barnes*
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
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Bambah (1) has recently determined the most economical covering of three dimensional space by equal spheres whose centres form a lattice, the density of this covering being

1.1.

As is well known, this problem may be interpreted in terms of the inhomogeneous minimum of a positive definite quadratic form.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 8 , 1956 , pp. 293 - 304
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1956

References

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