Periodic optimality for one-dimensional compact forbidden-distance sets

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Let K⊂[1,∞)K\subset[1,\infty) be a compact set with 1∈K1\in K. A sphere packing is KK-admissible if all distances between distinct centers avoid KK in the paper's normalization, and a periodic packing is one whose center set is a finite union of translates of a lattice. Periodic-optimality conjecture. There exists a KK-admissible periodic sphere packing of R\mathbb{R} with maximal density. The paper proves this under additional hypotheses on the accumulation points of KK, but leaves the assertion for arbitrary compact KK open.

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Felipe Gonçalves and Guilherme Vedana, “Sphere Packings in Euclidean Space with Forbidden Distances”, arXiv:2308.03925 (2025).

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