The local-global conjecture for Apollonian 3-circle packings

Fix a primitive Apollonian 3-circle packing P\mathcal{P}, let K\mathcal{K} be its set of curvatures, and let APA_{\mathcal{P}} be the set of admissible integers, meaning integers that pass all local obstructions for P\mathcal{P}.

Local-global conjecture. Every sufficiently large admissible integer from P\mathcal{P} is a curvature. Equivalently,

#{nKnN}=#{nAP0<nN}+O(1).\#\{n\in\mathcal{K}\mid n\leq N\}=\#\{n\in A_{\mathcal{P}}\mid 0<n\leq N\}+O(1).

The conjecture asserts that the local congruence conditions determine all sufficiently large curvatures in an Apollonian 3-packing. The paper proves a density-one version of this statement; the full conjecture is left open in the supplied text.

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Primary source

Xin Zhang, “On the Local-Global Principle for Integral Apollonian-3 Circle Packings”, arXiv:1312.4650 (2015).

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