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Two-flag degenerations and real circles tangent to three conics

Haoyang Liu·Tianle Liu·Guorui Xu·Fan Yang
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Three general plane conics admit $184$ complex tangent circles, and it had been conjectured that at most $136$ of them could be real. We construct an explicit strongly general triple of smooth conics over $\mathbb{Q}$ with exactly $160$ real tangent circles; the same count therefore occurs on a nonempty Euclidean chamber. The construction combines a fourfold splitting theorem for two flagged double-line degenerations with exact Sturm--Tarski, elimination, and interval certificates. We also show that the Grothendieck--Witt-valued count is $92\mathbb{H}$ and express its real local signs, up to a fixed orientation convention, in terms of curvature differences, residual intersection divisors, and contact normals. The exact-arithmetic code and certificate data are archived in the accompanying repository.

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Haoyang Liu, Tianle Liu, Guorui Xu, Fan Yang. 2026-08-14. Two-flag degenerations and real circles tangent to three conics. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.26285

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