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Original Article

New Conjectural Lower Bounds on the Optimal Density of Sphere Packings

S. Torquato Department of Chemistry, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials and Princeton Center for Theoretical Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
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F. H. Stillinger Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
Pages 307-331 | Published online: 30 Jan 2011

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