Aut(F₂) puzzles

DOI10.1007/S10711-018-0346-1MaRDI QIDQ1736082zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sylvain Barré, Mikaël Pichot

Publication date 29 March 2019

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.7742

zbMATH Keywords

automorphisms of free groupsflat closing conjecturering puzzle problemtilings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Tilings in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C20)

Abstract: This paper studies Aut(F2) and groups closely related to it from a geometric perspective.

Review text

A ring puzzle is a tessellation of the Euclidean plane $\mathbb{R}^2$ using planar polygons with coloured angles. The ring at a vertex of the puzzle is the coloured circle of small radius around that vertex. A ring puzzle problem is the problem of classifying all puzzles whose coloured polygons and rings belong to prescribed sets. \par The authors consider one concrete ring puzzle problem with two admissible poligons (an equilateral triangle and a lozenge) and three admissible rings. It is stated that this problem is connected with $\operatorname{Aut}(F_2)$ group. \par The main result states that there are 4 infinite families of considered puzzles and 9 exceptional puzzles belonging to the families.

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