Mathematics – Metric Geometry
Scientific paper
2008-02-06
Mathematics
Metric Geometry
14 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
We use the automorphism group $Aut(H)$, of holes in the lattice $L_8=A_2\oplus A_2\oplus D_4$, as the starting point in the construction of sphere packings in 10 and 12 dimensions. A second lattice, $L_4=A_2\oplus A_2$, enters the construction because a subgroup of $Aut(L_4)$ is isomorphic to $Aut(H)$. The lattices $L_8$ and $L_4$, when glued together through this relationship, provide an alternative construction of the laminated lattice in twelve dimensions with kissing number 648. More interestingly, the action of $Aut(H)$ on $L_4$ defines a pair of invariant planes through which dense, non-lattice packings in 10 dimensions can be constructed. The most symmetric of these is aperiodic with center density 1/32. These constructions were prompted by an unexpected arrangement of 378 kissing spheres discovered by a search algorithm.
Elser Veit
Gravel Simon
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