Least action principle of crystal formation of dense packing type and Kepler's conjecture /:

The dense packing of microscopic spheres (i.e. atoms) is the basic geometric arrangement in crystals of mono-atomic elements with weak covalent bonds, which achieves the optimal "known density" of p/v18. In 1611, Johannes Kepler had already "conjectured" that p/v18 should be the...

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1. Verfasser: Hsiang, Wu Yi, 1937-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, 2001.
Schriftenreihe:Nankai tracts in mathematics ; v. 3.
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Zusammenfassung:The dense packing of microscopic spheres (i.e. atoms) is the basic geometric arrangement in crystals of mono-atomic elements with weak covalent bonds, which achieves the optimal "known density" of p/v18. In 1611, Johannes Kepler had already "conjectured" that p/v18 should be the optimal "density" of sphere packings. Thus, the central problems in the study of sphere packings are the proof of Kepler's conjecture that p/v18 is the optimal density, and the establishing of the least action principle that the hexagonal dense packings in crystals are the geometric consequence of optimization of densi
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxi, 402 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-399) and index.
ISBN:981238491X
9789812384911
9810246706
9789810246709

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