--- _id: '312' abstract: - lang: eng text: 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. 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). article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Herbert full_name: Edelsbrunner, Herbert id: 3FB178DA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Edelsbrunner orcid: 0000-0002-9823-6833 - first_name: Mabel full_name: Iglesias Ham, Mabel id: 41B58C0C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Iglesias Ham citation: ama: 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 apa: 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 chicago: 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. ieee: 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. ista: 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. mla: 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. short: H. Edelsbrunner, M. Iglesias Ham, SIAM J Discrete Math 32 (2018) 750–782. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:45:46Z date_published: 2018-03-29T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-13T09:34:38Z day: '29' department: - _id: HeEd doi: 10.1137/16M1097201 external_id: isi: - '000428958900038' intvolume: ' 32' isi: 1 issue: '1' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d2d5/6da00fbc674e6a8b1bb9d857167e54200dc6.pdf month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 750 - 782 project: - _id: 2561EBF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: I02979-N35 name: Persistence and stability of geometric complexes publication: SIAM J Discrete Math publication_identifier: issn: - '08954801' publication_status: published publisher: 'Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ' publist_id: '7553' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: On the optimality of the FCC lattice for soft sphere packing type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 32 year: '2018' ...