Apollonian packings in seven and eight dimensions (Q2118159): Difference between revisions

In an earlier work the author introduced a generalization of Apollonian circle and sphere packings to arbitrary dimensions, see the paper [\textit{A. Baragar}, Geom. Dedicata 195, 137--161 (2018; Zbl 1409.52021)]. He showed that his definition reproduces the classical Apollonian packings in dimensions \(N=2,3\) and that the objects obtained in dimensions \(N=4,5,6\) share important properties of those in lower dimensions. In the paper under review this is extended to two dimensions \(N=7,8\). In particular, the hyperspheres are mutually disjoint or tangent to each other, they fill the space \(\mathbb{R}^N\) up to some fractal remainder, each of them belongs to a cluster of \(N+2\) mutually tangent hyperspheres, and -- after a suitable inversion in some hypersphere -- all of them have integer curvature.