The consecutive-curvature sequence conjecture for the 24-cell Apollonian packing
The consecutive-curvature sequence conjecture for the 24-cell Apollonian packing
Let be the polytopal sphere packing obtained by rescaling a -CBP projection of the -cell by a factor of , and let 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
such that, for every , the curvature of is .
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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