Factorization of frieze patterns

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Authors Moritz Weber, Mang Zhao

Publication date 9 January 2020

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00274

zbMATH Keywords

factorizationfrieze patternquiddity cycle.reducibility

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of tessellation and tiling problems (05B45) Combinatorial aspects of groups and algebras (05E16) Cluster algebras (13F60) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20)

Abstract: In 2017, Michael Cuntz gave a definition of reducibility of quiddity cycles of frieze patterns: It is reducible if it can be written as a sum of two other quiddity cycles. We discuss the commutativity and associativity of this sum operator for quiddity cycles and its equivalence classes, respectively. We show that the sum is neither commutative nor associative, but we may circumvent this issue by passing to equivalence classes. We also address the question whether a decomposition of quiddity cycles into irreducible factors is unique and we answer it in the negative by giving counterexamples. We conclude that even under stronger assumptions, there is no canonical decomposition.

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