The Closest Packing of Spherical Caps in n Dimensions
R. A. Rankin · Proceedings of the Glasgow Mathematical Association · 1955
Let Sn denote the “surface” of an n-dimensional unit sphere in Euclidean space of n dimensions. We may suppose that the sphere is centred at the origin of coordinates O, so that the points P(x1, x2, …, xn) of Sn satisfy We suppose that n≥2.