Asymptotic behavior of the shape of planar polygons by linear flows (Q1790490)

The paper under review investigates the asymptotic behavior of an \(n\)-gon under the repeated action of a complex affine transformation \(\alpha\). Here, \(\alpha\) is defined by complex matrices \(A\) and \(B\) of sizes \((n,n)\) and \((1,n)\), respectively, and the image under \(\alpha\) of an \(n\)-gon \(P=[P_1,\ldots,P_n]\) placed in the complex plane is the polygon \(P' = [P_1',\ldots,P_n']\) given by \( P' = PA+B.\) The paper is concerned with the limit, as \(n \to \infty\), of the size and shape of the image of \(P\) under the action of \(\alpha^n\). This reviewer would like to draw the reader's attention to the book [Over and over again. Washington, DC: The Mathematical Association of America (1997; Zbl 0891.00004)] by \textit{G. Chang} and \textit{T. Sederberg}, where many interesting elementary examples of iterations of the type above can be found. He also would like to add that when the polygon is a triangle, the shape functions introduced in the reviewer's papers [Results Math. 54, No. 3--4, 289--299 (2008; Zbl 1183.51006); J. Geom. 96, No. 1--2, 71--79 (2010; Zbl 1204.51020)] are expected to be useful. Actually, they are used in these references to solve a then open problem about the asymptotic behavior of a triangle under the repeated action of a certain linear iteration.