Kepler's conjecture for asymptotic sphere-packing density

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Let Γ\Gamma be a container, let ρ(1,kΓ)\rho(1,k\Gamma) denote the optimal density of unit-sphere packings in the kk-fold magnification kΓk\Gamma, and define

ρ^(Γ)=lim supkρ(1,kΓ).\hat{\rho}(\Gamma)=\limsup_{k\to\infty}\rho(1,k\Gamma).

For a large class of containers Γ\Gamma, including those with piecewise smooth boundary, Kepler's conjecture.

ρ^(Γ)=π18.\hat{\rho}(\Gamma)=\frac{\pi}{\sqrt{18}}.

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.

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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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