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A FORMAL PROOF OF THE KEPLER CONJECTURE

  • THOMAS HALES (a1), MARK ADAMS (a2) (a3), GERTRUD BAUER (a4), TAT DAT DANG (a5), JOHN HARRISON (a6), LE TRUONG HOANG (a7), CEZARY KALISZYK (a8), VICTOR MAGRON (a9), SEAN MCLAUGHLIN (a10), TAT THANG NGUYEN (a7), QUANG TRUONG NGUYEN (a1), TOBIAS NIPKOW (a11), STEVEN OBUA (a12), JOSEPH PLESO (a13), JASON RUTE (a14), ALEXEY SOLOVYEV (a15), THI HOAI AN TA (a7), NAM TRUNG TRAN (a7), THI DIEP TRIEU (a16), JOSEF URBAN (a17), KY VU (a18) and ROLAND ZUMKELLER (a19)...
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This article describes a formal proof of the Kepler conjecture on dense sphere packings in a combination of the HOL Light and Isabelle proof assistants. This paper constitutes the official published account of the now completed Flyspeck project.

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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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