Geometry and arithmetic of crystallographic sphere packings

DOI10.1073/PNAS.1721104116MaRDI QIDQ5222789zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Kei Nakamura, Alex Kontorovich

Publication date 3 July 2019

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

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

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)

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.

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