Local-global conjecture for curvatures in integral circle packings

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Let P\mathcal{P} be an integral circle packing, let K⊂Z\mathcal{K}\subset\mathbb{Z} be its set of curvatures, and let Ka\mathcal{K}_a be the set of integers passing all local obstructions for K\mathcal{K}. For N≥0N\geq 0, write

K(N)=K∩[0,N]\mathcal{K}(N)=\mathcal{K}\cap[0,N]

and let cM,A,Cc_{M,\mathcal{A},C} denote the proportion of admissible congruence classes, so that #Ka(N)=cM,A,CN+O(1)\#\mathcal{K}_a(N)=c_{M,\mathcal{A},C}N+O(1). Local-global conjecture. All sufficiently large admissible integers are curvatures; equivalently,

#K(N)=cM,A,CN+O(1).\#\mathcal{K}(N)=c_{M,\mathcal{A},C}N+O(1).

The preceding local result shows that the admissible integers are a finite union of congruence classes and gives their asymptotic density. The conjecture asserts that there are no further global obstructions beyond these local ones, apart from finitely many small admissible integers.

References

Primary source

Elena Fuchs, Katherine E. Stange and Xin Zhang, “Local-global principles in circle packings”, arXiv:1707.06708 (2017).

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