Frieze patterns over algebraic numbers

DOI10.1112/BLMS.13003arXiv2306.12148OpenAlexW4391915304MaRDI QIDQ6203671FDOQ6203671

Thorsten Holm, Michael Cuntz, Carlo Pagano

Publication date: 6 April 2024

Published in: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Conway and Coxeter have shown that frieze patterns over positive rational integers are in bijection with triangulations of polygons. An investigation of frieze patterns over other subsets of the complex numbers has recently been initiated by Jorgensen and the first two authors. In this paper we first show that a ring of algebraic numbers has finitely many units if and only if it is an order in a quadratic number field $mathbbQ(sqrtd)$ where $d<0$. We conclude that these are exactly the rings of algebraic numbers over which there are finitely many non-zero frieze patterns for any given height. We then show that apart from the cases $din-1,-2,-3,-7,-11$ all non-zero frieze patterns over the rings of integers $mathcal{O}_d$ for $d<0$ have only integral entries and hence are known as (twisted) Conway-Coxeter frieze patterns.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12148

zbMATH Keywords

arrays of numberscluster algebras of Dynkin type \(A\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of commutative algebra (05E40) Combinatorial aspects of tessellation and tiling problems (05B45) Algebraic numbers; rings of algebraic integers (11R04) Quadratic extensions (11R11) Cluster algebras (13F60)

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