What is the tightest packing of N equal nonoverlapping spheres, in the sense of having minimal energy, i.e., smallest second moment about the centroid? The putatively optimal arrangements are described for N≤32. A number of new and interesting polyhedra arise. © 1995 Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
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Sloane, N. J. A., Hardin, R. H., Duff, T. D. S., & Conway, J. H. (1995). Minimal-energy clusters of hard spheres. Discrete & Computational Geometry, 14(1), 237–259. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02570704
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