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It is given a lower bound for the closeness of packings of balls (Theorem 1) and an upper bound for thickness of point sets (Theorem 2) in d-dimensional spherical space. The bounds are improved for d = 2 (Theorem 3, 4).
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Horváth, J., Temesvári, Á.H. Über Die Enge Von Kugelpackungen und Dicke Von Punktsystemen im Sphärischen Raum. Periodica Mathematica Hungarica 34, 93–104 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004228708674
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