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A brief account of the basic results of the paper was published in Dok. Akad. Nauk SSSR,164, No. 1 (1965), 13–15.
Translated from Sibirskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 974–1001, September–October, 1966.
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Baranovskii, E.P. Local minima of the density of the lattice covering of a four-dimensional Euclidean space by similar spheres. Sib Math J 7, 779–798 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01044483
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