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Quadratic Cyclic Sequences

Combinatorics 2019-07-26 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

We explore relations between cyclic sequences determined by a quadratic difference relation, cyclotomic polynomials, Eulerian digraphs and walks in the plane. These walks correspond to closed paths for which at each step one must turn either left or right through a fixed angle. In the case when this angle is 2π/n2 \pi /n, then non-symmetric phenomena occurs for n12n\geq 12. Examples arise from algebraic numbers of modulus one which are not nn'th roots of unity.

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@article{arxiv.1907.10881,
  title  = {Quadratic Cyclic Sequences},
  author = {Paul Baird and Ai Fardoun and Zeina Ghazo Hanna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.10881},
  year   = {2019}
}
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