Davis–Lelièvre's local-global conjecture for asymmetric pentagonal billiard periods
Davis–Lelièvre's local-global conjecture for asymmetric pentagonal billiard periods
A combinatorial period length is the number of line segments in a periodic trajectory on the regular pentagon; a trajectory is asymmetric when it does not have 5-fold rotational symmetry. Davis–Lelièvre's local-global conjecture. Every sufficiently large even number arises as an asymmetric combinatorial period length on the regular pentagon. More precisely, every positive even integer except , , and occurs. This conjecture was motivated by extensive numerical analysis of closed trajectories and concerns the complete set of asymmetric combinatorial period lengths.
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Alex Kontorovich and Xin Zhang, “On the Local-Global Conjecture for Combinatorial Period Lengths of Closed Billiards on the Regular Pentagon”, arXiv:2409.10682 (2024).
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