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Timeline for covering by spherical caps

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Jan 10, 2020 at 21:03 comment added Chris Jones Recently we were able to prove almost an $\Omega(d)$ lower bound via algorithmic techniques. However, the bound only applies for "large caps" $\alpha \geq \frac{\pi}{2} - d^{-1/4}$.
Oct 21, 2015 at 13:22 comment added Thomas Dybdahl Ahle The sample of his book: catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam051/2003065450.pdf
Jun 13, 2011 at 16:14 vote accept Igor Rivin
Jun 13, 2011 at 16:13 comment added Igor Rivin Thanks! I am not sure what the intuition is for the second statement (that the covering density grows linearly with $d) thought -- I guess I should look at the references...
Jun 12, 2011 at 15:39 history answered Henry Cohn CC BY-SA 3.0