Geometry and arithmetic of crystallographic sphere packings

DOI10.1073/PNAS.1721104116zbMATH Open1422.52009arXiv1712.00147OpenAlexW2962677138WikidataQ90764420 ScholiaQ90764420MaRDI QIDQ5222789FDOQ5222789

Authors: Kei Nakamura, Alex Kontorovich 

Publication date: 3 July 2019

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce the notion of a "crystallographic sphere packing," defined to be one whose limit set is that of a geometrically finite hyperbolic reflection group in one higher dimension. We exhibit for the first time an infinite family of conformally-inequivalent such with all radii being reciprocals of integers. We then prove a result in the opposite direction: the "superintegral" ones exist only in finitely many "commensurability classes," all in dimensions below 30.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00147

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zbMATH Keywords

Apollonian spherecrystallographic packingsintegral sphere packingssuperintegral crystallographic packings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Reflection groups, reflection geometries (51F15) Circle packings and discrete conformal geometry (52C26)

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