The prime and thickened prime component conjecture for Apollonian packings

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Let Pfull{\mathcal{P}^{\operatorname{full}}} be an ambient primitive integral Apollonian packing. A prime component Ppr{\mathcal{P}^{\operatorname{pr}}} is a component consisting of the prime-curvature circles specified in the paper, and a thickened prime component Pth{\mathcal{P}^{\operatorname{th}}} is obtained from a prime component by adding every circle tangent to it. Prime and thickened prime component conjecture.

  1. The set of curvatures appearing in Ppr{\mathcal{P}^{\operatorname{pr}}} is the same as the set of primes appearing in Pfull{\mathcal{P}^{\operatorname{full}}}, up to finitely many exceptions.
  2. The set of curvatures appearing in Pth{\mathcal{P}^{\operatorname{th}}} is the same as the set of curvatures appearing in Pfull{\mathcal{P}^{\operatorname{full}}}, 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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