Improved Bounds for the Disk-packing Constant
Inhomogeneous extreme forms
G.F. Voronoi (1868–1908) wrote two memoirs in which he describes two reduction theories for lattices, well-suited for sphere packing and covering problems. In his first memoir a characterization of locally most economic packings is given, but a corresponding result for coverings has been missing. In this paper we bridge the two classical memoirs.By looking at the covering problem from a different perspective, we discover the missing analogue. Instead of trying to find lattices giving economical...
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