Upper Bound on the Packing Density of Regular Tetrahedra and Octahedra

Discrete and Computational Geometry

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 799-818

  Gravel, Simon ^a   Elser, Veit ^b   Kallus, Yoav ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Cornell Center for Materials Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Hilbert problem; Octahedron; Packing; Regular solid; Tetrahedron; Upper bound

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053654552     PISSN: 01795376     EISSN: 14320444     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00454-010-9304-x     Document Type: Article

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