Dynamics of a soccer ball

DOI10.1080/10586458.2014.891473zbMATH Open1310.37021arXiv1404.3170OpenAlexW2006722422MaRDI QIDQ5249302FDOQ5249302

Authors: Scott Crass 

Publication date: 30 April 2015

Published in: Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Exploiting the symmetry of the regular icosahedron, Peter Doyle and Curt McMullen constructed a solution to the quintic equation. Their algorithm relied on the dynamics of a certain icosahedral equivariant map for which the icosahedron's twenty face-centers--one of its special orbits--are superattracting periodic points. The current study considers the question of whether there are icosahedrally symmetric maps with superattracting periodic points at a 60-point orbit. The investigation leads to the discovery of two maps whose superattracting sets are configurations of points that are respectively related to a soccer ball and a companion structure. It concludes with a discussion of how a generic 60-point attractor provides for the extraction of all five of the quintic's roots.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.3170

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zbMATH Keywords

icosahedronequivariant mapquintic equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Attractors and repellers of smooth dynamical systems and their topological structure (37C70) Dynamics of complex polynomials, rational maps, entire and meromorphic functions; Fatou and Julia sets (37F10)

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Uses Software

• Dynamics

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