The unfoldability conjecture for billiard triangles in Weyl chambers
Let be a Weyl chamber with tip at a special vertex . Let be special vertices, and consider a billiard triangle with geodesic sides and and broken side . A billiard triangle is unfoldable when it can be unfolded to a geodesic triangle in the ambient symmetric space or building. It is a generalized Littelmann triangle when its broken side is a weak LS path, namely a broken geodesic satisfying Littelmann's axioms without requiring in the definition of an -chain.
Unfoldability conjecture. A billiard triangle in with sides , and , and with the special vertices , is unfoldable if and only if it is a generalized Littelmann triangle.
This conjecture characterizes unfoldable billiard triangles through weak LS paths, extending the known correspondence between Littelmann triangles and tensor-product inclusions for representations of the dual group. The supplied source does not state whether the conjecture has been resolved.
References
Primary source
Michael Kapovich, Bernhard Leeb and John J. Millson, “The generalized triangle inequalities in symmetric spaces and buildings with applications to algebra”, arXiv:math/0210256 (2005).
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