2 papers
math.MG1998
Sphere packings V
Samuel P. Ferguson
The Hales program to prove the Kepler conjecture on sphere packings consists of five steps, which if completed, will jointly comprise a proof of the conjecture. We carry out step f…
math.MG1998
A formulation of the Kepler conjecture
Samuel P. Ferguson, Thomas C. Hales
This is the second in a series of papers giving a proof of the Kepler conjecture, which asserts that the density of a packing of congruent spheres in three dimensions is never grea…