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In a primitive integral Apollonian circle packing, the curvatures that appear must fall into one of six or eight residue classes modulo 24. The local-global conjecture states that every sufficiently large integer in one of these residue classes appears as a curvature in the packing. We prove that this conjecture is false for many packings, by proving that certain quadratic and quartic families are missed. The new obstructions are a property of the thin Apollonian group (and not its Zariski closure), and are a result of quadratic and quartic reciprocity, reminiscent of a Brauer-Manin obstruction. Based on computational evidence, we formulate a new conjecture.
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Local-global principles in circle packings
We generalize work by Bourgain and Kontorovich [ On the local-global conjecture for integral Apollonian gaskets , Invent. Math. 196 (2014), 589–650] and Zhang [ On the local-global principle for integral Apollonian 3-circle packings , J. Reine Angew. Math. 737 , (2018), 71–110], proving an almost local-to-global property for the curvatures of certain circle packings, to a large class of Kleinian groups. Specifically, we associate in a natural way an infinite family of integral packings of circles to any Kleinian group $${\mathcal{A}}\leqslant \text{PSL}_{2}(K)$$ satisfying certain conditions, where $$K$$ is an imaginary quadratic field, and show that the curvatures of the circles in any such packing satisfy an almost local-to-global principle. A key ingredient in the proof is that $${\mathcal{A}}$$ possesses a spectral gap property, which we prove for any infinite-covolume, geometrically finite, Zariski dense Kleinian group in $$\operatorname{PSL}_{2}({\mathcal{O}}_{K})$$ containing a Zariski dense subgroup of $$\operatorname{PSL}_{2}(\mathbb{Z})$$ .
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- PAR ID:
- 10108927
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Compositio Mathematica
- Volume:
- 155
- Issue:
- 6
- ISSN:
- 0010-437X
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 1118 to 1170
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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