Annals of Mathematics· 2017Q1

The sphere packing problem in dimension $24$

Henry Cohn, Abhinav Kumar, Stephen D. Miller, Danylo Radchenko et al.

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The Leech lattice is proven to be the densest packing of congruent spheres in 24 dimensions, and the unique optimal periodic packing.

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