Doyle's conjecture on locally univalent circle packings of the hexagonal triangulation

Let TH\mathcal{T}_H be the hexagonal triangulation obtained from the lattice

H={vm,n=m+neπi3:m,nZ}H=\{v_{m,n}=m+ne^{\frac{\pi i}{3}}:m,n\in\mathbb{Z}\}

by connecting lattice vertices at distance 11. A locally univalent circle packing is a circle packing of TH\mathcal{T}_H with locally univalent developing map; the regular hexagonal packings and the Doyle spirals Pr0,x,y\mathcal{P}_{r_0,x,y}, defined for r0>0r_0>0 and x,yR+x,y\in\mathbb{R}_+ by

rm,n=r0xmyn,m,nZ,r_{m,n}=r_0x^my^n,\qquad m,n\in\mathbb{Z},

are the explicitly known examples.

Doyle's conjecture. There are no locally univalent circle packings of the hexagonal triangulation TH\mathcal{T}_H other than regular hexagonal packings and Doyle spirals.

The conjecture asserts rigidity of locally univalent circle packings with hexagonal combinatorics: the known regular and spiral families should exhaust the moduli space. However, for the general cases, the conjecture remains open.

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Primary source

Bobo Hua and Puchun Zhou, “The rigidity of Doyle circle packings on the infinite hexagonal triangulation”, arXiv:2404.11258 (2024).

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