The prime and thickened prime component conjecture for Apollonian packings
The prime and thickened prime component conjecture for Apollonian packings
Let be an ambient primitive integral Apollonian packing. A prime component is a component consisting of the prime-curvature circles specified in the paper, and a thickened prime component is obtained from a prime component by adding every circle tangent to it. Prime and thickened prime component conjecture.
- The set of curvatures appearing in is the same as the set of primes appearing in , up to finitely many exceptions.
- The set of curvatures appearing in is the same as the set of curvatures appearing in , up to finitely many exceptions.
This is proposed as the analogue of the corrected curvature conjecture for components; the paper states that it remains open.
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Holley Friedlander, Elena Fuchs, Piper Harris, Catherine Hsu, James Rickards, Katherine Sanden, Damaris Schindler and Katherine E. Stange, “Prime and thickened prime components in Apollonian circle packings”, arXiv:2410.00177 (2025).
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