Vanishing Ones Conjecture for transformed triangular grids

Let Tn,kT_{n,k} denote the triangular grid obtained after kk transformations from the nn-grid, and let Tn,nssT_{n,n-s}^s denote an ss-subgrid of Tn,nsT_{n,n-s}. For an edge, its edge value is the corresponding resistance label, and Interior(Tn,nss)Interior(T_{n,n-s}^s) denotes the interior of the ss-subgrid. For integer n1n\geq 1, the following holds. Vanishing Ones Conjecture.

(a) Tn,n1=1T_{n,n}^1=1.

(b) For 1sn+141\leq s\leq \left\lfloor\frac{n+1}{4}\right\rfloor, Interior(Tn,nss)Interior(T_{n,n-s}^s) is equal to one.

(c) With ss as in (b), for an edge in the complement of the interior of an ss-subgrid, its edge value is strictly less than one if it lies on the edge boundary of some ss'-grid, 1s<s1\leq s'<s; its edge value is strictly greater than one otherwise.

(d) For any ss with n+14<sn1\left\lfloor\frac{n+1}{4}\right\rfloor<s\leq n-1, there are no edges with label 11 in Tn,nsT_{n,n-s}; the ones “vanish”.

The conjecture formalizes the observed pattern of edge resistances under repeated transformations of regular triangular grids, including the disappearance of edges with resistance one after sufficiently many reductions.

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Primary source

Emily J. Evans and Russell J. Hendel, “Resistance values under transformations in regular triangular grids”, arXiv:2207.11207 (2024).

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