The growth conjecture for prime and thickened prime components
Let be the number of circles of curvature at most in a prime component , and let be the corresponding quantity for a thickened prime component . Let denote the prime-counting function. Growth conjecture for prime and thickened prime components. For every prime component and thickened prime component,
and
The conjecture is based on experimental data; the paper proves only a lower bound for prime components and discusses estimates for the exact growth rates.
References
Primary source
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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