Abstract
The dependencies of a kinetic glass transition volume (Vk g) for hard spheres, and the corresponding amorphous close-packed volume (Vk a at infinite pressure (NkT/pV0= 0), upon the number of spheres, the initial volume and the rate of compression, are examined in the context of two recently published conflicting viewpoints. Both Vk g and Vk a exhibit characteristic upper-bounds at the instantaneous-quench limit and decrease with reduced compression rates. The behaviour of Vk g and Vk a for slower compression rates, beyond the present resources of MD computation time, is uncertain. The possibility of lower-bounds to Vk g and Vk a associated with a quasi-thermodynamic transition as conjectured earlier, remains plausible.