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The Formal Proof of the Kepler Conjecture: a critical retrospective

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arxiv 2402.08032 v1 pith:6WV3OCXU submitted 2024-02-12 math.MG

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The Kepler conjecture asserts that no packing of congruent balls in three-dimensional Euclidean space has density greater than that of the face-centered cubic packing. In 1998, Sam Ferguson and I announced a computer-assisted proof of this conjecture. Long delays in the refereeing process sparked a project to give a formal proof of the Kepler conjecture, which was completed in a large collaborative effort in 2014. This article gives a critical reappraisal of that project.

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