The arbitrarily long periodic-orbit conjecture for triangle tilings

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A triangle tiling is a tiling of the plane by congruent triangles. A periodic trajectory is one that returns to its initial position and direction, and its length is the number of reflections or segments in one period.

Triangle periodic-length conjecture. There exist triangle tilings with periodic trajectories of arbitrarily large length.

The paper gives examples of periodic trajectories, including a trajectory of period 3434, but the existence of arbitrarily large periods remains open.

References

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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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