The escaping-trajectory conjecture for isosceles triangle tilings
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 .
Isosceles escaping-trajectory conjecture. An isosceles triangle tiling has an escaping trajectory if and only if its vertex angle is not of the form
for some positive integer .
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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