Apollonian circle packings of the half-plane

DOI10.4310/JOC.2012.V3.N1.A1zbMATH Open1271.52019arXiv1102.1628MaRDI QIDQ353397FDOQ353397

John R. Doyle, Michael Ching

Publication date: 12 July 2013

Published in: Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider Apollonian circle packings of a half Euclidean plane. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for two such packings to be related by a Euclidean similarity (that is, by translations, reflections, rotations and dilations) and describe explicitly the group of self-similarities of a given packing. We observe that packings with a non-trivial self-similarity correspond to positive real numbers that are the roots of quadratic polynomials with rational coefficients. This is reflected in a close connection between Apollonian circle packings and continued fractions which allows us to completely classify such packings up to similarity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.1628

zbMATH Keywords

continued fractionssimilarityApollonian circle packings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions (11A55) Circle packings and discrete conformal geometry (52C26)

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