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A Euclidean (or hyperbolic) circle packing on a closed triangulated surface with prescribed inversive distance is locally determined by its cone angles. We prove this by applying a variational principle.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-05-18 Ren Guo

We study balanced circle packings and circle-contact representations for planar graphs, where the ratio of the largest circle's diameter to the smallest circle's diameter is polynomial in the number of circles. We provide a number of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-08-22 Md. Jawaherul Alam , David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , Stephen G. Kobourov , Sergey Pupyrev

A formula for the radii and positions of four circles in the plane for an arbitrary linearly independent circle configuration is found. Among special cases is the recent extended Descartes Theorem on the Descartes configuration and an…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2007-06-07 Jerzy Kocik

This article is a gentle introduction to the mathematical area known as circle packing, the study of the kinds of patterns that can be formed by configurations of non-overlapping circles. The first half of the article is an exposition of…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2013-04-11 Andrey M. Mishchenko

We establish basic properties of cluster algebras associated with oriented bordered surfaces with marked points. In particular, we show that the underlying cluster complex of such a cluster algebra does not depend on the choice of…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2010-03-15 Sergey Fomin , Michael Shapiro , Dylan Thurston

This article highlights interactions of diverse areas: the Heron formula for the area of a triangle, the Descartes circle equation, and right triangles with integer or rational sides. New and old results are synthesized. We show that every…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frank Bernhart , H. Lee Price

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

We describe some theoretical results on triangulations of surfaces and we develop a theory on roots, decompositions and genus-surfaces. We apply this theory to describe an algorithm to list all triangulations of closed surfaces with at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Gennaro Amendola

This paper proves a corner occupying theorem for the two-dimensional integral rectangle packing problem, stating that if it is possible to orthogonally place n arbitrarily given integral rectangles into an integral rectangular container…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-11-17 Wenqi Huang , Tao Ye , Duanbing Chen

We study the two-dimensional hierarchical rectangle packing problem, motivated by applications in analog integrated circuit layout, facility layout, and logistics. Unlike classical strip or bin packing, the dimensions of the container are…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Josef Grus , Zdeněk Hanzálek , Christian Artigues , Cyrille Briand , Emmanuel Hebrard

We determine the distribution of nearest neighbour spacings between the tangencies to a fixed circle in a class of circle packings generated by reflections. We use a combination of geometric tools and the theory of automorphic forms.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Zeev Rudnick , Xin Zhang

The article presents the mathematical sequences describing circle packing densities in four different geometric configurations involving a hexagonal lattice based equal circle packing in the Euclidian plane. The calculated sequences take…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Jure Voglar , Aljoša Peperko

A simple proof of Thue theorem on Circle Packing is given. The proof is only based on density analysis of Delaunay triangulation for the set of points that are centers of circles in a saturated circle configuration.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-23 Hai-Chau Chang , Lih-Chung Wang

In a previous paper, the author compute the dimension of Hochschild cohomology groups of Jacobian algebras from (unpunctured) triangulated surfaces, and gave a geometric interpretation of those numbers in terms of the number of internal…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Yadira Valdivieso-Díaz

A translation surface is a surface formed by identifying edges of a collection of polygons in the complex plane that are parallel and of equal length using only translations. We determined that the same circle packing can be realized on…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Anton Levonian

We study circle packings with the combinatorics of a triangulated disk in the plane and parametrize deformations of circle packings in terms of vertex rotation and cross ratios. We show that there is a Weierstrass representation formula…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Wai Yeung Lam

We find explicit formulas for the radii and locations of the circles in all the optimally dense packings of two, three or four equal circles on any flat torus, defined to be the quotient of the Euclidean plane by the lattice generated by…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Madeline Brandt , William Dickinson , AnnaVictoria Ellsworth , Jennifer Kenkel , Hanson Smith

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

Symmetric edge polytopes are a recent and well-studied family of centrally symmetric polytopes arising from graphs. In this paper, we introduce a generalization of this family to arbitrary simplicial complexes. We show how topological…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Torben Donzelmann , Thiago Holleben , Martina Juhnke

Discrete conformal mappings based on circle packing, vertex scaling, and related structures has had significant activity since Thurston proposed circle packing as a way to approximate conformal maps in the 1980s. The first convergence…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-06 David Glickenstein , Lee Sidbury