Integral Apollonian circle packings and prime curvatures (Q351307)

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    Integral Apollonian circle packings and prime curvatures (English)
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    11 July 2013
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    The author presents density results for the set of curvatures in primitive integral Apollonian circle packings. It is shown that for any such circle packing there exists a number \(c>0\) such that for sufficiently large \(X\), the number of prime numbers less than \(X\) which are curvatures of circles in the packing is at least \(cX/\log X\). The so-called ``positive density'' conjecture says that every primitive integral Apollonian circle packing produces a set of curvatures of positive density in \(\mathbb Z\). The author gives a new, alternative proof of this. He uses the circle method, binary quadratic forms and other interesting tools to get these interesting results. In the corrigendum [ibid. 120, 393 (2013; Zbl 1281.52012)] a modification of the estimate (1.3) is given.
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    (integral) Apollonian circle packing
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    binary quadratic forms
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    Descartes quadratic form
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    Gauss sum
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