The 4n+24n+2 period conjecture for periodic trajectories on triangle tilings

A triangle tiling is the edge-to-edge tiling of the plane by congruent copies of a triangle. The period of a periodic trajectory is the number of iterations, or equivalently the number of repeated trajectory steps, in its minimal return.

4n+24n+2 conjecture. Every periodic trajectory on a triangle tiling has period 4n+24n+2 for some positive integer nn.

The source says that Hubert and Paris-Romaskevich subsequently proved this conjecture. It is therefore solved.

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Paul Baird-Smith, Diana Davis, Elijah Fromm and Sumun Iyer, “Tiling Billards on Triangle Tilings, and Interval Exchange Transformations”, arXiv:1809.07876 (2018).

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