The ring lemma in three dimensions
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2011

Suppose that n cyclically tangent discs with pairwise disjoint interiors are externally tangent to and surround the unit disc. The sharp ring lemma in two dimensions states that no disc has a radius below c (n) (R (2)) = (F (2n-3)-1)(-1)-where F (k) denotes the kth Fibonacci number-and that the lower bound is attained in essentially unique Apollonian configurations. In this article, generalizations of the ring lemma to three dimensions are discussed, a version of the ring lemma in three dimensions is proved, and a natural generalization of the extremal two-dimensional configuration-thought to be extremal in three dimensions-is given. The sharp three-dimensional ring lemma constant of order n is shown to be bounded from below by the two-dimensional constant of order n - 1.

apollonian circle packings

geometry

Circle packing

theorem

Apollonian

Ring lemma

Sphere packing

Författare

Jonatan Vasilis

Chalmers, Matematiska vetenskaper, Matematik

Göteborgs universitet

Geometriae Dedicata

0046-5755 (ISSN) 1572-9168 (eISSN)

Vol. 152 1 51-62

Ämneskategorier

Matematik

DOI

10.1007/s10711-010-9545-0

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2017-10-07