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arxiv: 1712.00147 · v1 · pith:IYINRBNDnew · submitted 2017-12-01 · 🧮 math.MG · math.GT· math.NT

Geometry and Arithmetic of Crystallographic Sphere Packings

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keywords crystallographicspherearithmeticbelowclassescommensurabilityconformally-inequivalentdefined
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We introduce the notion of a "crystallographic sphere packing," defined to be one whose limit set is that of a geometrically finite hyperbolic reflection group in one higher dimension. We exhibit for the first time an infinite family of conformally-inequivalent such with all radii being reciprocals of integers. We then prove a result in the opposite direction: the "superintegral" ones exist only in finitely many "commensurability classes," all in dimensions below 30.

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