Asymptotics of best-packing on rectifiable sets

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 135, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2369-2380

  Borodachov, S V ^a   Hardin, D P ^b   Saff, E B ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Best packing points; Hard spheres problem; Minimal discrete riesz energy; Packing measure; Rectifiable set; Sphere packing; Thomson problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 66149155559     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-07-08975-7     Document Type: Article

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