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title: Spectral Geometry — References
description: >-
  Works cited for the Part III chapter: Lapidus's fractal strings and complex
  dimensions, Flajolet's Mellin transform asymptotics, Faloutsos-Kamel R-tree
  analysis, Apollonian gaskets and the Riemann Hypothesis, and Zipf's law, with web
  sources accessed in December 2025.
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paper:
  title: "Spectral Geometry of Fractal Information: Complex Dimensions, the Riemann Zeta Distribution, and Algorithmic Oscillations in Sorting and 2D Packing"
  part_title: Complex Dimensions and Spectral Geometry
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  stage: chapter-draft
sources:
  - id: drmota-szpankowski2011
    resource: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/spa/papers/soda11.pdf
    title: A master theorem for discrete divide and conquer recurrences (Drmota and Szpankowski 2011, SODA)
  - id: mackenzie2010
    resource: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/a-tisket-a-tasket-an-apollonian-gasket
    title: A tisket, a tasket, an Apollonian gasket (Mackenzie 2010, American Scientist)
  - id: hempstead2015
    resource: https://scholar.rose-hulman.edu/rhumj/vol16/iss2/13/
    title: Apollonian circle packings and the Riemann Hypothesis (Hempstead 2015, Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal)
  - id: wiki-apollonian
    resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollonian_gasket
    title: Apollonian gasket (Wikipedia)
  - id: mathworld-apollonian
    resource: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ApollonianGasket.html
    title: Apollonian gasket (Wolfram MathWorld)
  - id: faloutsos-kamel1994-pdf
    resource: https://www-db.disi.unibo.it/courses/SI-M/papers/FK94.pdf
    title: "Beyond uniformity and independence: analysis of R-trees using the concept of fractal dimension (Faloutsos and Kamel 1994, PDF)"
  - id: mathoverflow-rh
    resource: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/17209/consequences-of-the-riemann-hypothesis
    title: Consequences of the Riemann Hypothesis (MathOverflow)
  - id: counterfractal
    resource: https://math.dartmouth.edu/~carlp/counterfractal.pdf
    title: Counterexamples to the modified Weyl-Berry conjecture on fractal drums (Lapidus and Pomerance, PDF)
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# References

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