The consecutive-curvature sequence conjecture for the 24-cell Apollonian packing

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Let BR4\mathcal{B}_{\mathcal{R}^4} be the polytopal sphere packing obtained by rescaling a 11-CBP projection of the 2424-cell by a factor of 13\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}, and let Ω(BR4)\Omega(\mathcal{B}_{\mathcal{R}^4}) denote its associated packing. A sequence of spheres is consecutive tangent if each sphere is tangent to the next one.

Consecutive-curvature sequence conjecture. There is a sequence of consecutive tangent spheres

(b0,b1,)Ω(BR4)(b_0,b_1,\ldots)\subset \Omega(\mathcal{B}_{\mathcal{R}^4})

such that, for every nNn\in\mathbb N, the curvature of bnb_n is nn.

This is a stronger, structured version of the preceding claim: it requires all natural-number curvatures to occur along one tangent sequence. The source presents it as an open conjecture motivated by numerical experiments.

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Primary source

Iván Rasskin, “Regular polytopes, sphere packings and Apollonian sections”, arXiv:2109.00655 (2024).

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