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Densest lattice packing of a truncated icosahedron
The truncated icosahedron (also known as soccer-ball) has 60 vertices, 90 edges and 32 facets, 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons. It is one of the thirteen Archimedean solids and its dual is called pentakis dodecahedron. It was rediscovered during th 15th century by the outstanding artist Piero della Francesca.
The density of a densest lattice packing was calculated with the algorithm of Betke and Henk. The density is equal to 0.7849..., 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 icosahedron | |
MSC-2000 Classification | 52C17 (11H31) |
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University of Magdeburg
Department of Mathematics
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D-39106 Magdeburg
henk@mail.math.uni-magdeburg.de
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