On the optimality of the FCC lattice for soft sphere packing
Edelsbrunner H, Iglesias Ham M. 2018. On the optimality of the FCC lattice for soft sphere packing. SIAM J Discrete Math. 32(1), 750–782.
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Abstract
Motivated by biological questions, we study configurations of equal spheres that neither pack nor cover. Placing their centers on a lattice, we define the soft density of the configuration by penalizing multiple overlaps. Considering the 1-parameter family of diagonally distorted 3-dimensional integer lattices, we show that the soft density is maximized at the FCC lattice.
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2018-03-29
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SIAM J Discrete Math
Acknowledgement
This work was partially supported by the DFG Collaborative Research Center TRR 109, “Discretization in Geometry and Dynamics,” through grant I02979-N35 of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
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32
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1
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750 - 782
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Edelsbrunner H, Iglesias Ham M. On the optimality of the FCC lattice for soft sphere packing. SIAM J Discrete Math. 2018;32(1):750-782. doi:10.1137/16M1097201
Edelsbrunner, H., & Iglesias Ham, M. (2018). On the optimality of the FCC lattice for soft sphere packing. SIAM J Discrete Math. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics . https://doi.org/10.1137/16M1097201
Edelsbrunner, Herbert, and Mabel Iglesias Ham. “On the Optimality of the FCC Lattice for Soft Sphere Packing.” SIAM J Discrete Math. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics , 2018. https://doi.org/10.1137/16M1097201.
H. Edelsbrunner and M. Iglesias Ham, “On the optimality of the FCC lattice for soft sphere packing,” SIAM J Discrete Math, vol. 32, no. 1. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics , pp. 750–782, 2018.
Edelsbrunner H, Iglesias Ham M. 2018. On the optimality of the FCC lattice for soft sphere packing. SIAM J Discrete Math. 32(1), 750–782.
Edelsbrunner, Herbert, and Mabel Iglesias Ham. “On the Optimality of the FCC Lattice for Soft Sphere Packing.” SIAM J Discrete Math, vol. 32, no. 1, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics , 2018, pp. 750–82, doi:10.1137/16M1097201.
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