Estimate for the fractal dimension of the Apollonian gasket in d dimensions

It is shown that the numerical data in cond-mat/0608362 are in very good agreement with the predictions of cond-mat/0601573.

We reveal the fractal nature of patterns arising in random sequential adsorption of particles with continuum power-law size distribution, $P(R)\sim R^{\alpha-1}$, $R \le R_{\rm max}$. We find that the patterns become more and more ordered as $\alpha$ increases, and that the Apollonian packing is obtained at $\alpha \to \infty $ limit. We introduce the entropy production rate as a quantitative criteria of regularity and observe a transition from an irregular regime of the patt...

The problem of finding the asymptotic behavior of the maximal density of sphere packings in high Euclidean dimensions is one of the most fascinating and challenging problems in discrete geometry. One century ago, Minkowski obtained a rigorous lower bound that is controlled asymptotically by $1/2^d$, where $d$ is the Euclidean space dimension. An indication of the difficulty of the problem can be garnered from the fact that exponential improvement of Minkowski's bound has prov...

Random sequential addition (RSA) time-dependent packing process, in which congruent hard hyperspheres are randomly and sequentially placed into a system without interparticle overlap, is a useful packing model to study disorder in high dimensions. Of particular interest is the infinite-time {\it saturation} limit in which the available space for another sphere tends to zero. However, the associated saturation density has been determined in all previous investigations by extra...

A recent letter titled "Explicit Analytical Solution for Random Close Packing in d=2 and d=3" published in Physical Review Letters proposes a first-principle computation of the random close packing (RCP) density in spatial dimensions d=2 and d=3. This problem has a long history of such proposals, but none capture the full picture. This paper, in particular, once generalized to all d fails to describe the known behavior of jammed systems in d>4, thus suggesting that the low-di...

We study, via the replica method of disordered systems, the packing problem of hard-spheres with a square-well attractive potential when the space dimensionality, d, becomes infinitely large. The phase diagram of the system exhibits reentrancy of the liquid-glass transition line, two distinct glass states and a glass-to-glass transition, much similar to what has been previously obtained by Mode-Coupling Theory, numerical simulations and experiments. The presence of the phase ...

We develop an algorithm to construct new self-similar space-filling packings of spheres. Each topologically different configuration is characterized by its own fractal dimension. We also find the first bi-cromatic packing known up to now.

Analytic approximations for the radial distribution function, the structure factor, and the equation of state of hard-core fluids in fractal dimension $d$ ($1 \leq d \leq 3$) are developed as heuristic interpolations from the knowledge of the exact and Percus-Yevick results for the hard-rod and hard-sphere fluids, respectively. In order to assess their value, such approximate results are compared with those of recent Monte Carlo simulations and numerical solutions of the Perc...

In this paper, we have obtained bounds for the box dimension of graph of harmonic function on the Sierpi\'nski gasket. Also we get upper and lower bounds for the box dimension of graph of functions that belongs to $\text{dom}(\mathcal{E}),$ that is, all finite energy functionals on the Sierpi\'nski gasket. Further, we show the existence of fractal functions in the function space $\text{dom}(\mathcal{E})$ with the help of fractal interpolation functions. Moreover, we provide b...

We generate non-lattice packings of spheres in up to 22 dimensions using the geometrical constraint satisfaction algorithm RRR. Our aggregated data suggest that it is easy to double the density of Ball's lower bound, and more tentatively, that the exponential decay rate of the density can be improved relative to Minkowski's longstanding 1/2.