Density bounds for unit ball packings relative to their outer parallel domains

2024/01/01 by Bezdek, Károly, Lángi, Zsolt
#FOS: Mathematics #Metric Geometry (math.MG)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2401.00645

Abstract

We prove that the highest density of non-overlapping translates of a given centrally symmetric convex domain relative to its outer parallel domain of given outer radius is attained by a lattice packing in the Euclidean plane. This generalizes some earlier (classical) results. Sharp upper bounds are proved for the analogue problem on congruent circular disks in the spherical (resp., hyperbolic) plane and on congruent balls in Euclidean 3-space.

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