Origami rings
| Autor: | Buhler, Joe, Butler, Steve, de Launey, Warwick, Graham, Ron |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Motivated by a question in origami, we consider sets of points in the complex plane constructed in the following way. Let $L_\alpha(p)$ be the line in the complex plane through $p$ with angle $\alpha$ (with respect to the real axis). Given a fixed collection $U$ of angles, let $\RU$ be the points that can be obtained by starting with $0$ and $1$, and then recursively adding intersection points of the form $L_\alpha(p) \cap L_\beta(q)$, where $p, q$ have been constructed already, and $\alpha, \beta$ are distinct angles in $U$. Our main result is that if $U$ is a group with at least three elements, then $\RU$ is a subring of the complex plane, i.e., it is closed under complex addition and multiplication. This enables us to answer a specific question about origami folds: if $n \ge 3$ and the allowable angles are the $n$ equally spaced angles $k\pi/n$, $0 \le k < n$, then $\RU$ is the ring $\Z[\zeta_n]$ if $n$ is prime, and the ring $\Z[1/n,\zeta_{n}]$ if $n$ is not prime, where $\zeta_n := \exp(2\pi i/n)$ is a primitive $n$-th root of unity. Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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