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What is known about unit cubes
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Abstract:

Unit cubes, from any point of view, are among the simplest and the most important objects in $n$-dimensional Euclidean space. In fact, as one will see from this survey, they are not simple at all. On the one hand, the known results about them have been achieved by employing complicated machineries from Number Theory, Group Theory, Probability Theory, Matrix Theory, Hyperbolic Geometry, Combinatorics, etc.; on the other hand, the answers for many basic problems about them are still missing. In addition, the geometry of unit cubes does serve as a meeting point for several applied subjects such as Design Theory, Coding Theory, etc. The purpose of this article is to figure out what is known about the unit cubes and what do we want to know about them.
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  • Chuanming Zong
  • Affiliation: School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
  • Email: cmzong@math.pku.edu.cn
  • Received by editor(s): June 9, 2004
  • Published electronically: January 26, 2005
  • Additional Notes: This work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China, 973 Project and a special grant from Peking University.
  • © Copyright 2005 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 181-211
  • MSC (2000): Primary 05A15, 05B20, 05B25, 05B45, 11H31, 11J13, 15A33, 20K01, 28A25, 52B05, 52C20, 52C22
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-05-01050-5
  • MathSciNet review: 2133310