Apollonian packings in seven and eight dimensions

DOI10.1007/S00010-021-00792-ZMaRDI QIDQ2118159zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Arthur Baragar

Publication date 22 March 2022

Published in Aequationes Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04316

zbMATH Keywords

ample coneApollonian sphere packingcrystallographyhyperspheresK3 surfacelatticeSoddy packing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice packing and covering (number-theoretic aspects) (11H31) (K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Other geometric groups, including crystallographic groups (20H15) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17) Circle packings and discrete conformal geometry (52C26)

Abstract: In an earlier work, we proposed a generalization for the Apollonian packing in arbitrary dimensions and showed that the resulting object in four, five, and six dimensions have properties consistent with the Apollonian circle and sphere packings in two and three dimensions. In this work, we investigate the generalization in seven and eight dimensions and show that they too have many of the properties of those in lower dimensions. In particular, the hyperspheres are tangent or do not intersect; they fill the hyperspace; the object includes a maximal cluster of mutually tangent hyperspheres; and there exists a perspective where all hyperspheres in the object have integer curvatures.

Review text

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.

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