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The Kissing Numbers of Spheres in Eight and Twenty-Four Dimensions

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Sphere Packings

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Let Λ be an n-dimensional lattice. As usual, we call it an integral lattice if

$$ \left\langle {u,u} \right\rangle \in Z,{\mathbf{ }}u \in \wedge . $$

. In particular, we call it an even integral lattice if [fx139-02}, and an odd integral lattice otherwise.

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(1999). The Kissing Numbers of Spheres in Eight and Twenty-Four Dimensions. In: Talbot, J. (eds) Sphere Packings. Universitext. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-22780-1_9

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