In 1998, Thomas Hales published a proof of the Kepler Conjecture, which states that the {\em cubic close packing} is the densest possible packing of equally-sized spheres. The proof is by exhaustion on a set of 3050 plane graphs satisfying certain properties, called {\em tame plane graphs}. The enumeration of this set has been generated by a computer program, hence the completeness of this enumeration is essential for the proof. In this thesis, we formalize a theory of plane graphs defined as an inductive set in the theorem prover Isabelle/HOL: a plane graph is constructed starting with one face and repeatedly adding new faces. Based on this theory, we formalize one part of the proof of the Kepler Conjecture, the completeness of the enumeration of tame plane graphs.
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In 1998, Thomas Hales published a proof of the Kepler Conjecture, which states that the {\em cubic close packing} is the densest possible packing of equally-sized spheres. The proof is by exhaustion on a set of 3050 plane graphs satisfying certain properties, called {\em tame plane graphs}. The enumeration of this set has been generated by a computer program, hence the completeness of this enumeration is essential for the proof. In this thesis, we formalize a theory of plane graphs defined as an...
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