The no-spiraling conjecture for triangle tilings

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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.

References

Primary source

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

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