New upper bounds on sphere packings I

Annals of Mathematics

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 689-714

  Cohn, Henry ^a   Elkies, Noam ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0037769863     PISSN: 0003486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4007/annals.2003.157.689     Document Type: Article

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