Complete saturation and reduction existence conjecture for bodies

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Let KK be a body in Euclidean space cmathbbEdcmathbb{E}^d or hyperbolic space cmathbbHdcmathbb{H}^d. A packing is completely saturated if it is nn-saturated for every n≥1n\geq 1, and a covering is completely reduced if it is nn-reduced for every n≥1n\geq 1.

Complete saturation and reduction conjecture. Every body KK in Ed\mathbb{E}^d (respectively, in Hd\mathbb{H}^d) admits a completely saturated packing and a completely reduced covering with replicas of KK.

This proposes completely saturated packings and completely reduced coverings as local substitutes for optimal-density arrangements. The supplied text does not state whether the assertion has been proved or disproved.

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Gabor Fejes Tóth, Greg Kuperberg and Włodzimierz Kuperberg, “Highly saturated packings and reduced coverings”, arXiv:math/9511225 (1995).

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