English

Self-avoiding and plane-filling properties for terdragons and other triangular folding curves

Combinatorics 2023-10-31 v2

Abstract

We consider nn-folding triangular curves, or nn-folding t-curves, obtained by folding nn times a strip of paper in 33, each time possibly left then right or right then left, and unfolding it with π/3\pi /3 angles. An example is the well known terdragon curve. They are self-avoiding like nn-folding curves obtained by folding nn times a strip of paper in two, each time possibly left or right, and unfolding it with π/2\pi /2 angles. We also consider complete folding t-curves, which are the curves without endpoint obtained as inductive limits of nn-folding t-curves. We show that each of them can be extended into a unique covering of the plane by disjoint such curves, and this covering satisfies the local isomorphism property introduced to investigate aperiodic tiling systems. Two coverings are locally isomorphic if and only if they are associated to the same sequence of foldings. Each class of locally isomorphic coverings contains exactly 2ω 2^{\omega } (resp. 2ω2^{\omega }, 22 or 55, 00) isomorphism classes of coverings by 11 (resp. 22, 33, 4\geq 4) curves. These properties are partly similar to those of complete folding curves.

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@article{arxiv.1712.09545,
  title  = {Self-avoiding and plane-filling properties for terdragons and other triangular folding curves},
  author = {Francis Oger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.09545},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

My new paper "Coverings of the plane by self-avoiding curves which satisfy the local isomorphism property" contains an improved version of the results and proofs of the present paper, as well as other results

R2 v1 2026-06-22T23:30:04.356Z