Rigidity of spherical codes

A packing of spherical caps on the surface of a sphere (that is, a spherical code) is called rigid or jammed if it is isolated within the space of packings. In other words, aside from applying a global isometry, the packing cannot be deformed. In this paper, we systematically study the rigidity o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cohn, Henry, Jiao, Yang, Kumar, Abhinav, Torquato, Salvatore
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Mathematical Sciences Publishers 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71122