Kepler's conjecture for asymptotic sphere-packing density
Let be a container, let denote the optimal density of unit-sphere packings in the -fold magnification , and define
For a large class of containers , including those with piecewise smooth boundary, Kepler's conjecture.
This is the asymptotic formulation of the Kepler sphere-packing problem, asserting that sufficiently regular containers have the face-centered-cubic packing density. The supplied text does not indicate whether this formulation is intended as resolved or open.
References
Primary source
Wu-Yi Hsiang, “A new local invariant and simpler proof of Kepler's conjecture and the least action principle on the crystalformation of dense type”, arXiv:1704.08446 (2017).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (1998–2017). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/9811078.
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