The local-to-global principle for integral Apollonian circle packings

Let PP be an integral Apollonian circle packing, and let P24P_{24} be the set of residue classes modulo 2424 represented by curvatures of circles in PP.

Local-to-global principle for Apollonian circle packings. There exists XPZX_P\in\mathbb Z such that every integer x>XPx>X_P whose residue modulo 2424 lies in P24P_{24} is the curvature of a circle in PP.

This conjecture predicts that the congruence obstructions modulo 2424 are the only obstructions to sufficiently large integers occurring as curvatures. It gives a precise form of the strong-density conjecture for integral Apollonian circle packings; the source reports experimental evidence but does not state a resolution.

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Elena Fuchs and Katherine Sanden, “Some experiments with integral Apollonian circle packings”, arXiv:1001.1406 (2010).

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