PIRSA:21030006

Sphere packings, universal optimality, and Fourier interpolation

Viazovska, M. (2021). Sphere packings, universal optimality, and Fourier interpolation. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/21030006

Viazovska, Maryna. Sphere packings, universal optimality, and Fourier interpolation. Perimeter Institute, Mar. 24, 2021, https://pirsa.org/21030006 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:21030006,
            doi = {10.48660/21030006},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/21030006},
            author = {Viazovska, Maryna},
            keywords = {Other},
            language = {en},
            title = {Sphere packings, universal optimality, and Fourier interpolation},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2021},
            month = {mar},
            note = {PIRSA:21030006 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Maryna Viazovska

L'Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)

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In this lecture we will show that the E8 and Leech lattices minimize energy of every potential function that is a completely monotonic function of squared distance (for example, inverse power laws or Gaussians). This theorem implies recently proven optimality of E8 and Leech lattices as sphere packings and broadly generalizes it to long-range interactions. The key ingredient of the proof is sharp linear programming bounds. To construct the optimal auxiliary functions attaining these bounds, we prove a new interpolation theorem. This is the joint work with Henry Cohn, Abhinav Kumar, Stephen D. Miller, and Danylo Radchenko.