Uniqueness conjecture for maximally circlable sets and circles
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.
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Jianqiang Zhao, “The Largest Circle Enclosing n Lattice Points”, arXiv:2505.06234 (2025).
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