Periodic optimality for one-dimensional compact forbidden-distance sets
Let be a compact set with . A sphere packing is -admissible if all distances between distinct centers avoid 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 -admissible periodic sphere packing of with maximal density. The paper proves this under additional hypotheses on the accumulation points of , but leaves the assertion for arbitrary compact 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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