Authors

Xin Zhang

Type

Text

Type

Dissertation

Advisor

Kontorovich, Alex

Date

2014-12-01

Keywords

Mathematics

Department

Department of Mathematics.

Language

en_US

Source

This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76415

Publisher

The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.

Format

application/pdf

Abstract

Starting with three mutually tangent circles, in each of the two gaps we inscribe three circles, and then we inscribe three new circles into the newly generated circles, so on so forth? We obtain a packing of infinitely many circles, and we give a name Apollonian-3 packings. It turns out there exist packings of this type with curvatures (1 over radius) all integers. I will discuss what we know about the integers arising as curvatures from these packings. I will discuss the reduction theorem, the symmetry group, and a density one theorem towards the local-global conjecture. | 47 pages

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