The unfoldability conjecture for billiard triangles in Weyl chambers
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.
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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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