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Packing tripods: Narrowing the density gap. / Tiskin, Alexander.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Packing tripods: Narrowing the density gap
AU - Tiskin, Alexander
PY - 2007/7/28
Y1 - 2007/7/28
N2 - In 1984, Stein and his co-authors posed a problem concerning simple three-dimensional shapes, known as semicrosses, or tripods. By definition, a tripod of order n is formed by a corner and the three adjacent edges of an integer n × n × n cube. How densely can one fill the space with non-overlapping tripods of a given order? In particular, is it possible to fill a constant fraction of the space as tripod order tends to infinity? In this paper, we settle the second question in the negative: the fraction of the space that can be filled with tripods must be infinitely small as the order grows. We also make a step towards the solution of the first question, by improving the currently known asymptotic lower bound on tripod packing density, and by presenting some computational results on low-order packings. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
AB - In 1984, Stein and his co-authors posed a problem concerning simple three-dimensional shapes, known as semicrosses, or tripods. By definition, a tripod of order n is formed by a corner and the three adjacent edges of an integer n × n × n cube. How densely can one fill the space with non-overlapping tripods of a given order? In particular, is it possible to fill a constant fraction of the space as tripod order tends to infinity? In this paper, we settle the second question in the negative: the fraction of the space that can be filled with tripods must be infinitely small as the order grows. We also make a step towards the solution of the first question, by improving the currently known asymptotic lower bound on tripod packing density, and by presenting some computational results on low-order packings. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
KW - Regularity lemma
KW - Semicross packing
KW - Tripod packing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34248651541&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.disc.2004.12.028
DO - 10.1016/j.disc.2004.12.028
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34248651541
VL - 307
SP - 1973
EP - 1981
JO - Discrete Mathematics
JF - Discrete Mathematics
SN - 0012-365X
IS - 16
ER -
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