Uniqueness conjecture for maximally circlable sets and circles
Call a nonnegative integer maximally circlable if there exists a largest circle enclosing exactly lattice points in its interior. Fix the key triangle with vertices , , and , and let be a largest such circle with center in the key triangle; call it an MC-circle of , and call the enclosed set of lattice points an MC-set of . Rigid motions of the lattice system are translations, reflections, and rotations preserving the lattice. Uniqueness conjecture. For any maximally circlable integer , both the configuration of the MC-set and the MC-circle of are unique up to rigid motions of the lattice system. The conjecture is based on overwhelming numerical evidence, but no resolution is supplied in the paper.
References
Primary source
Jianqiang Zhao, “The Largest Circle Enclosing n Lattice Points”, arXiv:2505.06234 (2025).
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