A proof of the positive density conjecture for integer Apollonian circle packings

DOI10.1090/S0894-0347-2011-00707-8MaRDI QIDQ3173299zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Elena Fuchs, Jean Bourgain

Publication date 27 September 2011

Published in Journal of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.3894

zbMATH Keywords

sieve methodscircle methodquadratic formsnumber theoryApollonian packings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic and bilinear Diophantine equations (11D09) General ternary and quaternary quadratic forms; forms of more than two variables (11E20) Lattice packing and covering (number-theoretic aspects) (11H31) Circle packings and discrete conformal geometry (52C26) General binary quadratic forms (11E16)

Abstract: A bounded Apollonian circle packing (ACP) is an ancient Greek construction which is made by repeatedly inscribing circles into the triangular interstices in a Descartes configuration of four mutually tangent circles. Remarkably, if the original four circles have integer curvature, all of the circles in the packing will have integer curvature as well. In this paper, we compute a lower bound for the number $kappa(P,X)$ of integers less than $X$ occurring as curvatures in a bounded integer ACP $P$, and prove a conjecture of Graham, Lagarias, Mallows, Wilkes, and Yan that the ratio $kappa(P,X)/X$ is greater than 0 for $X$ tending to infinity.

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