Local-global conjecture for reduced curvatures in K-Apollonian packings

Let KK be an imaginary quadratic field with discriminant Δ3\Delta\neq -3. Let P\mathcal P be a KK-Apollonian packing. The curvature of a KK-Bianchi circle has the form nΔn\sqrt{-\Delta} with nZn\in\mathbb Z; call nn its reduced curvature. For any MZM\in\mathbb Z, let SMS_M be the set of residue classes modulo MM of the reduced curvatures in P\mathcal P.

Local-global conjecture for KK-Apollonian packings. There exists an MM dividing 2424 such that all sufficiently large integers whose residues modulo MM lie in SMS_M occur as reduced curvatures in P\mathcal P. Furthermore, the minimal sufficient MM is determined by

v2(M)={3Δ28 (mod 32),2Δ8,12,20,24 (mod 32),1Δ0,4,16 (mod 32),0otherwise,v3(M)={1Δ5,8 (mod 12),0otherwise.v_2(M)=\begin{cases}3&\Delta\equiv28~(\textup{mod}~32),\\2&\Delta\equiv8,12,20,24~(\textup{mod}~32),\\1&\Delta\equiv0,4,16~(\textup{mod}~32),\\0&\text{otherwise},\end{cases}\qquad v_3(M)=\begin{cases}1&\Delta\equiv5,8~(\textup{mod}~12),\\0&\text{otherwise}. \end{cases}

This extends the local-global principle for integral Apollonian packings to imaginary quadratic fields other than Q(3)\mathbb Q(\sqrt{-3}), predicting that the stated congruence conditions account for all sufficiently large reduced curvatures. The source gives no evidence of a resolution.

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Katherine E. Stange, “The Apollonian structure of Bianchi groups”, arXiv:1505.03121 (2015).

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