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Haag, Kertzer, Rickards, and Stange disprove the Local-Global Conjecture for Apollonian circle packings. We extend their disproof to four more types of integral circle packing: the octahedral, cubic, square, and triangular packings. In each…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Hanqi Shi , Wenyuan Shi , Ian Whitehead , Ham Williams-Tracy , Jeffrey Zhirui Zhang

We prove that a set of density one satisfies the local-global conjecture for integral Apollonian gaskets. That is, for a fixed integral, primitive Apollonian gasket, almost every (in the sense of density) admissible (passing local…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-15 Jean Bourgain , Alex Kontorovich

Apollonian circle packings arise by repeatedly filling the interstices between four mutually tangent circles with further tangent circles. Such packings can be described in terms of the Descartes configurations they contain. It observed…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 R. L. Graham , J. C. Lagarias , C. L. Mallows , A. R. Wilks , C. H. Yan

In this paper we study the integral properties of Apollonian-3 circle packings, which are variants of the standard Apollonian circle packings. Specifically, we study the reduction theory, formulate a local-global conjecture, and prove a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Xin Zhang

Apollonian circle packings arise by repeatedly filling the interstices between mutually tangent circles with further tangent circles. In Euclidean space it is possible for every circle in such a packing to have integer radius of curvature,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-08 Nicholas Eriksson , Jeffrey C. Lagarias

Apollonian circle packings arise by repeatedly filling the interstices between mutually tangent circles with further tangent circles. It is possible for every circle in such a packing to have integer radius of curvature, and we call such a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 R. L. Graham , J. C. Lagarias , C. L. Mallows , A. R. Wilks , C. H. Yan

It is shown that any primitive integral Apollonian circle packing captures a fraction of the prime numbers. Basically the method consists in applying the circle method, considering the curvatures produced by a well-chosen family of binary…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-01-13 Jean Bourgain

Apollonian circle packings arise by repeatedly filling the interstices between four mutually tangent circles with further tangent circles. We observe that there exist Apollonian packings which have strong integrality properties, in which…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 R. L. Graham , J. C. Lagarias , C. L. Mallows , A. R. Wilks , C. H. Yan

We generalize work of Bourgain-Kontorovich and Zhang, proving an almost local-to-global property for the curvatures of certain circle packings, to a large class of Kleinian groups. Specifically, we associate in a natural way an infinite…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Elena Fuchs , Katherine E. Stange , Xin Zhang

A bounded Apollonian circle packing (ACP) is an ancient Greek construction which is made by repeatedly inscribing circles into the triangular interstices in a Descartes configuration of four mutually tangent circles. Remarkably, if the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-01-25 Jean Bourgain , Elena Fuchs

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…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Elena Fuchs , Katherine Sanden

We introduce an orthoplicial Apollonian sphere packing, which is a sphere packing obtained by successively inverting a configuration of 8 spheres with 4-orthplicial tangency graph. We will show that there are such packings in which the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Kei Nakamura

Four mutually tangent spheres form two gaps. In each of these, one can inscribe in a unique way four mutually tangent spheres such that each one of these spheres is tangent to exactly three of the original spheres. Repeating the process…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Dimitri Dias

We obtain an asymptotic formula for the number of circles of curvature at most T in any given bounded Apollonian circle packing. For an integral packing, we obtain the upper bounds for the number of circles with prime curvature as well as…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-12-14 Alex Kontorovich , Hee Oh

Inspired by a question of Sarnak, we introduce the notion of a prime component in an Apollonian circle packing: a maximal tangency-connected subset having all prime curvatures. We also consider thickened prime components, which are…

We study orbits of semigroups of $\text{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})$, and demonstrate reciprocity obstructions: we show that certain such orbits avoid squares, but not as a consequence of obstructions inherited from an algebraic set, and not as a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-24 James Rickards , Katherine E. Stange

We consider Apollonian circle packings of a half Euclidean plane. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for two such packings to be related by a Euclidean similarity (that is, by translations, reflections, rotations and dilations) and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-18 Michael Ching , John R. Doyle

A circle of curvature $n\in\mathbb{Z}^+$ is a part of finitely many primitive integral Apollonian circle packings. Each such packing has a circle of minimal curvature $-c\leq 0$, and we study the distribution of $c/n$ across all primitive…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-24 James Rickards

We consider two seemingly unconnected problems: first, under what circumstances are arithmetic groups like SL(2,O) generated by elementary matrices; second, when do certain classes of circle/sphere packings fill up space? We show that these…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Matthew Litman , Arseniy Sheydvasser

The Schmidt arrangement of an imaginary quadratic number field $K$ is the orbit of the extended real line under $\text{PSL}(2, \mathcal{O}_K)$ as M\"obius transformations on the extended complex plane. If $K\neq\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-3})$, then…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-18 James Rickards , Katherine E. Stange
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