Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups

The main themes. This book is mainly concerned with the problem of packing spheres in Euclidean space of dimensions 1,2,3,4,5, . . . . Given a large number of equal spheres, what is the most efficient (or densest) way to pack them together? We also study

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Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups With Additional Contributions by E. Bannai, J. Leech, S.P. Norton, A.M. Odlyzko, R.A. Parker, L. Queen and B.B. Venkov

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