Tables of sphere packings and spherical codes

@article{Sloane1981TablesOS,
  title={Tables of sphere packings and spherical codes},
  author={N. J. A. Sloane},
  journal={IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory},
  year={1981},
  volume={27},
  pages={327-338}
}
  • N. Sloane
  • Published 1 May 1981
  • Mathematics
  • IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory
The theta function of a sphere packing gives the number of centers at each distance from the origin. The theta functions of a number of important packings ( A_{n},D_{n},E_{n} , the Leech lattice, and others) and tables of the first fifty or so of their coefficients are given in this paper. 
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