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| Author(s): | Eric J. Cockayne; M Mihalkovic; |
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| Title: | Stable Quasicrystalline Sphere Packing |
| Published: | March 01, 1999 |
| Abstract: | Wills (1990, J. Phys., Paris 51, 1061), found a method relating certain decagonal disk packings to decagonal sphere packings with high packing fractions. Applying this technique to the decagonal rectangle-triangle tiling generated by inflation, we obtain a sphere packing with decagonal symmetry and a packing fraction greater than 0.6953. This is the densest known stable quasicrystalline sphere packing. |
| Citation: | Stable Quasicrystalline Sphere Packing |
| Volume: | 79 |
| Issue: | No. 7 |
| Keywords: | decagonal;quasicrystals;sphere packings |
| Research Areas: | Math |