The closest packing of equal circles on a sphere

DOI10.1098/rspa.1986.0056zbMath0586.52008OpenAlexW1972349492MaRDI QIDQ3711259

D. L. Kepert, B. W. Clare

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1986.0056

zbMATH Keywords

spherecircle packingpacking density

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17)

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