Doyle's conjecture on locally univalent circle packings of the hexagonal triangulation
Doyle's conjecture on locally univalent circle packings of the hexagonal triangulation
Let be the hexagonal triangulation obtained from the lattice
by connecting lattice vertices at distance . A locally univalent circle packing is a circle packing of with locally univalent developing map; the regular hexagonal packings and the Doyle spirals , defined for and by
are the explicitly known examples.
Doyle's conjecture. There are no locally univalent circle packings of the hexagonal triangulation 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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