Loops and regions in Hitomezashi patterns

DOI10.1016/J.DISC.2023.113693MaRDI QIDQ6080150zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Colin Defant, Noah Kravitz

Publication date 30 October 2023

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03461

zbMATH Keywords

Hitomezashistitching

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Designs and configurations (05Bxx) Special processes (60Kxx) Equilibrium statistical mechanics (82Bxx)

Abstract: Hitomezashi patterns, which originate from traditional Japanese embroidery, are intricate arrangements of unit-length line segments called stitches. The stitches connect to form hitomezashi strands and hitomezashi loops, which divide the plane into regions. We investigate the deeper mathematical properties of these patterns, which also feature prominently in the study of corner percolation. It was previously known that every loop in a hitomezashi pattern has odd width and odd height. We additionally prove that such a loop has length congruent to $4$ modulo $8$ and area congruent to $1$ modulo $4$. Although these results are simple to state, their proofs require us to understand the delicate topological and combinatorial properties of slicing operations that can be applied to hitomezashi patterns. We also show that the expected number of regions in a random $mimesn$ hitomezashi pattern (chosen according to a natural random model) is asymptotically $left(fracp{i}^2-912+o(1)ight)mn$.

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