Some Experiments with Integral Apollonian Circle Packings

DOI10.1080/10586458.2011.565255zbMATH Open1259.11065arXiv1001.1406OpenAlexW2594307166MaRDI QIDQ4915401FDOQ4915401

Authors: Elena Fuchs, Katherine Sanden 

Publication date: 10 April 2013

Published in: Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Bounded Apollonian circle packings (ACP's) are constructed by repeatedly inscribing circles into the triangular interstices of a configuration of four mutually tangent circles, one of which is internally tangent to the other three. If the original four circles have integer curvature, all of the circles in the packing will have integer curvature as well. In cite{ll}, Sarnak proves that there are infinitely many circles of prime curvature and infinitely many pairs of tangent circles of prime curvature in a primitive integral ACP. In this paper, we give a heuristic backed up by numerical data for the number of circles of prime curvature less than $x$, and the number of "kissing primes," or {it pairs} of circles of prime curvature less than $x$ in a primitive integral ACP. We also provide experimental evidence towards a local to global principle for the curvatures in a primitive integral ACPs.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.1406

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zbMATH Keywords

Diophantine equationscomputational number theoryintegral Apollonian circle packings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Evaluation of number-theoretic constants (11Y60) Lattice packing and covering (number-theoretic aspects) (11H31) Circle packings and discrete conformal geometry (52C26)

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