The saturation conjecture for densest packings of discs with finitely many radii

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Consider packings by nn different given discs. A packing is saturated if no further disc can be added. Saturation conjecture. If the densest compact packing is saturated, then the maximal density among all packings is attained by a compact packing. This extends the paper's result for binary disc packings to any number of disc radii; the saturation hypothesis is needed starting with three disc radii, and the supplied text does not establish the conjecture in general.

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Nicolas Bédaride and Thomas Fernique, “Density of Binary Disc Packings: The 9 Compact Packings”, arXiv:2002.07168 (2021).

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