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Horoball packings for the Lambert-cube tilings in the hyperbolic 3-space. (English) Zbl 1074.52006

In the 3-dimensional hyperbolic space consider generalized Lambert-cube tilings, i.e. face-transitive tilings by cubes with dihedral angles \(\frac{\pi}{p}\), \(\frac{\pi}{q}\) and \(\frac{\pi}2\), the reflections in the side planes of the cubes being elements of symmetry group. Those ball packings where the ball centres lie either in the Lambert-cubes or in the vertices of the cubes were investigated by the author earlier. For some values of parametrs \(p\) and \(q\) the cubes have ideal vertices which lie on the absolute, these vertices can be centres of some horoballs.
In the paper under review the optimal horoball packings are investigated.

MSC:

52C17 Packing and covering in \(n\) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry)
52C20 Tilings in \(2\) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry)
51M10 Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations