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On the multiplicity of arrangements of congruent zones on the sphere
Consider an arrangement of congruent zones on the -dimensional unit
sphere , where a zone is the intersection of an origin symmetric
Euclidean plank with . We prove that, for sufficiently large , it
is possible to arrange congruent zones of suitable width on such
that no point belongs to more than a constant number of zones, where the
constant depends only on the dimension and the width of the zones. Furthermore,
we also show that it is possible to cover by congruent zones such
that each point of belongs to at most zones, where the
is a constant that depends only on . This extends the corresponding
-dimensional result of Frankl, Nagy and Nasz\'odi (2016). Moreover, we also
examine coverings of with congruent zones under the condition that
each point of the sphere belongs to the interior of at most zones
The Strong Dodecahedral Conjecture and Fejes Toth's Conjecture on Sphere Packings with Kissing Number Twelve
This article sketches the proofs of two theorems about sphere packings in
Euclidean 3-space. The first is K. Bezdek's strong dodecahedral conjecture: the
surface area of every bounded Voronoi cell in a packing of balls of radius 1 is
at least that of a regular dodecahedron of inradius 1. The second theorem is L.
Fejes Toth's contact conjecture, which asserts that in 3-space, any packing of
congruent balls such that each ball is touched by twelve others consists of
hexagonal layers. Both proofs are computer assisted. Complete proofs of these
theorems appear in the author's book "Dense Sphere Packings" and a related
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