Densest lattice packing of a truncated cubeoctahedron
The truncated cubeoctahedron (sometimes called great rhombicubeoctahedron) has 48 vertices, 72 edges and 26 facets, 6 octagons, 8 hexagons and 12 squares. It is one of the thirteen Archimedean solids and its dual is called disdyakis dodecahedron. Maybe the first presentation of this polytope can be found in the revised version of Albrecht Dürer's Underweysung der Messung (around 1538).
The density of a densest lattice packing was calculated with the algorithm of Betke and Henk. The density is equal to 0.8493..., and the 12 points in the picture show the lattice points of a critical lattice lying in the boundary.
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Keywords | lattice packings; polytopes; packings; critical lattice; truncated cubeoctahedron | |
MSC-2000 Classification | 52C17 (11H31) |
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University of Magdeburg
Department of Mathematics
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