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The Local-Global Conjecture is False for Generalized Circle Packings

Hanqi Shi·Wenyuan Shi·Ian Whitehead·Ham Williams-Tracy·Jeffrey Zhirui Zhang
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Haag, Kertzer, Rickards, and Stange disprove the Local-Global Conjecture for Apollonian circle packings. We extend their disproof to four more types of integral circle packing: the octahedral, cubic, square, and triangular packings. In each case, we find quadratic invariants which imply quadratic reciprocity obstructions to the conjecture in certain packings. We utilize an explicit parametrization of circles tangent to a fixed circle in each packing type, and a quadratic reciprocity argument. Even in the packings where we do not find quadratic obstructions, the curvatures exhibit a predictable reciprocity structure. This leads to partial obstructions on integers appearing as curvatures in subsets of the packing.

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Hanqi Shi, Wenyuan Shi, Ian Whitehead, Ham Williams-Tracy, Jeffrey Zhirui Zhang. 2026-03-25. The Local-Global Conjecture is False for Generalized Circle Packings. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21702

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