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Local extremality of the Reinhardt octagon is proved.
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Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 151, pp. 104–114, 1986.
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Nazarov, F.L. Reinhardt's problem of lattice packings of convex domains: Local extremality of the Reinhardt octagon. J Math Sci 43, 2687–2693 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01727653
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01727653