The mixed-radius Lee sphere tiling conjecture

A Lee sphere in Rn\mathbb{R}^n is a cross-polytope-type region defined by a Lee radius, and a tiling means a covering of Rn\mathbb{R}^n by translates of such spheres with disjoint interiors. Mixed-radius Lee sphere tiling conjecture. For n3n\geq 3, there does not exist a tiling of Rn\mathbb{R}^n with Lee spheres of radius at least 11 such that the radius of at least one of them is at least 22. The paper presents this as a strengthening of the Golomb--Welch conjecture; it notes that the corresponding assertion with all radii at least two is known in the relevant dimensions, while this stronger mixed-radius statement remains open.

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Peter Horak and Dongryul Kim, “50 Years of the Golomb–Welch Conjecture”, arXiv:1706.03589 (2018).

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