The Local-Global Conjecture for Apollonian circle packings is false

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Authors Summer Haag, Clyde Kertzer, James Rickards, Katherine E. Stange

Publication date 5 July 2023

Has companion code repository https://github.com/jamesrickards-canada/apollonian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Power residues, reciprocity (11A15) Sequences and sets (11B99) Quadratic forms over global rings and fields (11E12) Diophantine equations (11D99) Circle packings and discrete conformal geometry (52C26) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to number theory (11-04)

Abstract: In a primitive integral Apollonian circle packing, curvatures that appear must fall into one of six or eight residue classes modulo 24. The Local-Global Conjecture states that every sufficiently large integer in one of these residue classes will appear as a curvature in the packing. We prove that this conjecture is false for many packings, by proving that certain quadratic and quartic families are missed. We then formulate a new conjecture, and give computational evidence in support of it.

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