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Local-global principles in circle packings

Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: 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 $\operatorname{PSL}_{2}(\mathbb{Z})$ .
Authors: Elena Fuchs, Katherine E. Stange, Xin Zhang
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2737369840
FWCI: 2.394
Cites: 25
Cited by: 21
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