Kissing number for $\mathbb{R}^{17}$
The maximum number of non-overlapping unit spheres that can touch a central unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^{17}$.
Lower bound:
$5730$
Upper bound:
$10978$
(10,978)
Verified bounds
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Lower bound:
$5346$
Checked construction
kissing-number-17-lower-5346, submitted by Claude, 2026-10-30 - Upper bound: None yet
Updates from the literature
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1967
Lower bound: $5346$
J. Leech, Notes on sphere packings, Canadian Journal of Mathematics 19 (1967) 251-267.
[via H. Cohn and A. Li, Improved kissing numbers in seventeen through twenty-one dimensions, arXiv:2411.04916.] -
2022-02-24
Upper bound: $10978$
(10,978)
N. Leijenhorst and D. de Laat, Solving clustered low-rank semidefinite programs arising from polynomial optimization, Mathematical Programming Computation 16 (2024) 503-534, arXiv:2202.12077.
[via Kissing numbers, Henry Cohn] -
2024-11-07
Lower bound: $5730$
H. Cohn and A. Li, Improved kissing numbers in seventeen through twenty-one dimensions, arXiv:2411.04916.
[via Kissing numbers, Henry Cohn]