ORIGAMI RINGS

DOI10.1017/S1446788711001741MaRDI QIDQ4918315zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Steve Butler, Warwick de Launey, Joe P. Buhler, Ron Graham

Publication date 24 April 2013

Published in Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.2769

zbMATH Keywords

binary hybridizationcyclotomic fieldsorigami rings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic numbers; rings of algebraic integers (11R04)

Abstract: Motivated by a question in origami, we consider sets of points in the complex plane constructed in the following way. Let $L_{a}lpha(p)$ be the line in the complex plane through $p$ with angle $alpha$ (with respect to the real axis). Given a fixed collection $U$ of angles, let $RU$ be the points that can be obtained by starting with $0$ and $1$, and then recursively adding intersection points of the form $$, where $p,q$ have been constructed already, and $$ are distinct angles in $U$. Our main result is that if $U$ is a group with at least three elements, then $RU$ is a subring of the complex plane, i.e., it is closed under complex addition and multiplication. This enables us to answer a specific question about origami folds: if $nge3$ and the allowable angles are the $n$ equally spaced angles $kpi/n$, $0lek<n$, then $RU$ is the ring $$ if $n$ is prime, and the ring $$ if $n$ is not prime, where $zet{a}_n:=exp(2pii/n)$ is a primitive $n$-th root of unity.

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• Constructing points through folding and intersection
• Subrings of \(\mathbb{C}\) generated by angles
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• Sums of distinct fifth roots of unity and the regular dodecahedron

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