Planar lattices and equilateral odd-gons
Combinatorics
2026-03-24 v2 Metric Geometry
Number Theory
Abstract
For a planar integral lattice , let denote the square-free part of the integer , where stands for the area of a fundamental parallelogram of . For each odd integer with , a planar lattice contains an equilateral -gon if and only if is similar to an integral lattice such that and the largest prime factor of satisfies . Moreover, such contains a convex equilateral -gon, which answers a problem posed by Maehara.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2503.01911,
title = {Planar lattices and equilateral odd-gons},
author = {Akira Iino and Masashi Sakiyama},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.01911},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
7 pages; v2: updated to incorporate the corrections published in Yokohama Math. J. 71, 61-62 (2025). Main results remain unchanged