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Free planes in lattice sphere packings

Martin Henk

math.MGarXiv:math/0308098

Abstract

We show that for every lattice packing of n-dimensional spheres there exists an (n/2(n))-dimensional affine plane which does not meet any of the spheres in their interior, provided n is large enough. Such an affine plane is called a free plane and our result improves on former bounds.

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