The no-spiraling conjecture for triangle tilings

Let a triangle tiling be a tiling of the plane by congruent triangles. A trajectory spirals if its successive motion winds outward in a spiral-like manner rather than being periodic or escaping in a non-spiraling way.

Triangle no-spiraling conjecture. Trajectories on triangle tilings never spiral.

The paper contrasts this conjecture with a previously proved spiraling phenomenon for divisions of the plane by an odd number of lines, and reports that spiraling is not observed on triangle tilings.

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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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