The local-global conjecture for curvatures in an integral Apollonian gasket
The local-global conjecture for curvatures in an integral Apollonian gasket
Let be the fixed primitive integral Apollonian gasket, let be the set of its circle curvatures,
and call an integer represented if it lies in . Let be the set of admissible integers, meaning those that are everywhere locally represented:
For the gasket considered here, the admissible residue classes modulo are and . Local-global conjecture. Every sufficiently large admissible number is the curvature of some circle in . This conjecture asserts that, apart from finitely many exceptions, the local congruence conditions completely characterize the curvatures occurring in the gasket. The local obstructions are explicit, but the asserted global representation statement is not established in the source.
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Primary source
Alex Kontorovich, “From Apollonius To Zaremba: Local-Global Phenomena in Thin Orbits”, arXiv:1208.5460 (2012).
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