Spinors and Descartes configurations of disks

Publication date 16 September 2019

Euclidean analytic geometry (51N20) Quadratic spaces; Clifford algebras (11E88) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66) Circle packings and discrete conformal geometry (52C26) Geometric constructions in real or complex geometry (51M15)

Abstract: We define spinors for pairs of tangent disks in the Euclidean plane and prove a number of theorems, one of which may be interpreted as a "square root of Descartes Theorem". In any Apollonian disk packing, spinors form a network. In the Apollonian Window, a special case of Apollonian disk packing, all spinors are integral.

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