New Conjectural Lower Bounds on the Optimal Density of Sphere Packings

Details New Conjectural Lower Bounds on the Optimal Density of Sphere Packings New Conjectural Lower Bounds on the Optimal Density of Sphere Packings

2005-08-19

arxiv.org/abs/math/0508381v2

Mathematics

Metric Geometry

46 pages, 5 figures, 3 Tables. Note that the current title replaces the word "Provisional," which appeared in the original sub

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Sphere packings in high dimensions interest mathematicians and physicists and have direct applications in communications theory. Remarkably, no one has been able to provide exponential improvement on a 100-year-old lower bound on the maximal packing density due to Minkowski in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space $\Re^d$. The asymptotic behavior of this bound is controlled by $2^{-d}$ in high dimensions. Using an optimization procedure that we introduced earlier \cite{To02c} and a conjecture concerning the existence of disordered sphere packings in $\Re^d$, we obtain a provisional lower bound on the density whose asymptotic behavior is controlled by $2^{-0.7786... d}$, thus providing the putative exponential improvement of Minkowski's bound. The conjecture states that a hard-core nonnegative tempered distribution is a pair correlation function of a translationally invariant disordered sphere packing in $\Re^d$ for asymptotically large d if and only if the Fourier transform of the autocovariance function is nonnegative. The conjecture is supported by two explicit analytically characterized disordered packings, numerical simulations in low dimensions, known necessary conditions that only have relevance in very low dimensions, and the fact that we can recover the forms of known rigorous lower bounds. A byproduct of our approach is an asymptotic lower bound on the average kissing number whose behavior is controlled by $2^{0.2213... d}$, which is to be compared to the best known asymptotic lower bound on the individual kissing number of $2^{0.2075... d}$. Interestingly, our optimization procedure is precisely the dual of a primal linear program devised by Cohn and Elkies \cite{Co03} to obtain upper bounds on the density, and hence has implications for linear programming bounds.

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