Dense packings from quadratic fields and codes

  • Authors:
  • Chaoping Xing

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637616, Republic of Singapore

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In the present paper, we make use of the quadratic field Q(-3) to construct dense packings in the Euclidean spaces. With the help from good error-correcting codes, we are able to produce several packings with the best-known densities. Furthermore, if we assume that the best upper bound in coding theory developed by Aaltonen, Ben-Haim and Litsyn could be achieved, then the Minkowski bound would be improved.