Equal-density conjecture for p2mg, cm, and p4 packings

About 4 years old · traced to

Let nn-gons be regular polygons, and write the density of the densest packing with plane group symmetry GG as the corresponding densest GG-packing density. An nn-gon has a kk-fold rotational symmetry if rotation by an angle of 2π/k2\pi/k preserves it, and k∈Nk\in\mathbb{N} means that kk is a positive integer. p2mg–cm–p4 equal-density conjecture. The densities of the densest p2mgp2mg and cmcm packings are equal for all nn-gons except nn-gons with (12k−1)(12k-1)-fold and (12k+1)(12k+1)-fold rotational symmetry, where k∈Nk\in\mathbb{N}; and the densities of the densest p2mgp2mg, cmcm, and p4p4 packings are equal for all nn-gons containing a twelve-fold rotational symmetry. These experimentally motivated equalities remain unresolved in the source.

References

Primary source

Miloslav Torda, John Y. Goulermas, Vitaliy Kurlin and Graeme M. Day, “Densest plane group packings of regular polygons”, arXiv:2207.08959 (2022).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.