Lewis Bowen
Published 2001-10-23Version 1
A packing by a body $K$ is collection of congruent copies of $K$ (in either Euclidean or hyperbolic space) so that no two copies intersect nontrivially in their interiors. A covering by $K$ is a collection of congruent copies of $K$ such that for every point $p$ in the space there is copy in the collection containing $p$. A completely saturated packing is one in which it is not possible to replace a finite number of bodies of the packing with a larger number and still remain a packing. A completely reduced covering is one in which it is not possible to replace a finite number of bodies of the covering with a smaller number and still remain a covering. It was conjectured by G. Fejes Toth, G. Kuperberg, and W. Kuperberg that completely saturated packings and commpletely reduced coverings exist for every body $K$ in either $n$-dimensional Euclidean or $n$-dimensional hyperbolic space. We prove this conjecture.
Comments: 14 pages, 1 figure
Highly saturated packings and reduced coverings
Pairs of convex bodies in $S^d$, ${\Bbb R}^d$ and $H^d$, with symmetric intersections of their congruent copies
Ball characterizations in planes and spaces of constant curvature, I
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