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## Prof. Maryna Viazovska (EPFL): The sphere packing problem in dimensions 8 and 24 - CANCELLED

Academic or specialist Colloquium / Congress / Forum
12.12.2017 17:15
Onsite

The sphere packing problem is to find an arrangement of non-overlapping unit spheres in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space in which the spheres fill as large a proportion of the space as possible. In this talk we will present a solution of the sphere packing problem in dimensions 8 and 24. In 2003 N. Elkies and H. Cohn proved that the existence of a real function satisfying certain constrains leads to an upper bound for the sphere packing constant. Using this method they obtained almost sharp estimates in dimensions 8 and 24. We will show that functions providing exact bounds can be constructed explicitly as certain integral transforms of modular forms. Therefore, the sphere packing problem in dimensions 8 and 24 is solved by a linear programming method.

When? 12.12.2017 17:15 PER 08 Phys 2.52Chemin du Musée 31700 Fribourg Department of Mathematicsisabella.schmutz@unifr.ch
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