Kershner proved in 1939 that the density of a covering of the plane by congruent circles is at least 2pi/root27 [3]. In 1950 L. Fejes Toth [2] extended this result showing that the same density bound holds for coverings with congruent ellipses which do not "cross". In the present paper we prove that the non-crossing assumption is not necessary if the ellipses are sufficiently "fat".
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Univ Los Andes, Dept Matemat, Bogota, Colombia
Univ Warwick, Math Inst, Coventry CV4 7AL, W Midlands, EnglandSan Francisco State Univ, Dept Math, San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
Rincon, Felipe
Williams, Lauren
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