The escaping-trajectory conjecture for isosceles triangle tilings

Let an isosceles triangle tiling be the tiling obtained from congruent isosceles triangles, and let its vertex angle be θ\theta.

Isosceles escaping-trajectory conjecture. An isosceles triangle tiling has an escaping trajectory if and only if its vertex angle is not of the form

θ=π2n+1\theta=\frac{\pi}{2n+1}

for some positive integer nn.

The preceding theorem establishes that every trajectory in an isosceles triangle tiling is either periodic or drift-periodic, while the equilateral case is known not to have a drift-periodic trajectory. The conjecture asserts that these are the only exceptions.

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Diana Davis, Kelsey DiPietro, Jenny Rustad and Alexander St Laurent, “Negative refraction and tiling billiards”, arXiv:1502.02053 (2017).

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