Abstract
One constructs perfect, extreme positive-definite quadratic forms of a special form in n variables for n ≤ 28, whose frames give the simplest packings of the space Rn.
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Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 144, pp. 167–172, 1985.
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Khurramov, A. Extreme quadratic forms of a special type in n variables (n < 28). J Math Sci 38, 2157–2160 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01474451
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