A Breakthrough in Sphere Packing: The Search for Magic Functions

zbMath1381.52027arXiv1607.02111MaRDI QIDQ2988061

David de Laat, Frank Vallentin

Publication date: 18 May 2017

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02111

zbMATH Keywords

latticesLeech latticesphere packingslinear programming bound\(E_8\) latticeoptimal function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear programming (90C05) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17)

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