I'm not entirely certain anyone researches this, but if so, I am having trouble finding papers on it. Was hoping someone might be able to point me towards where to look.
I am up against a problem that I have reduced to optimal- and/or symmetric/regular packings of unit-radius spheres in a cube of edge-length 2, across arbitrary dimensions
There's also a potentially helpful feature, where I can get away with the spheres "wrapping around" through the edges and corners of the cube. To wit, in three dimensions, if I translate a sphere upwards along z until it intersects the boundary of the cube at the z = 1 plane, then whatever subset of the of the sphere lies outside the cube is considered present coming up from the z = -1 plane at the "bottom" of the cube.
Thanks in advance for any direction on this.