Periodicity and ergodicity in the trihexagonal tiling (Q1757304)

The trihexagonal tiling of the plane is the edge-to-edge tiling where an equilateral triangle and a regular hexagon meet at each edge. In the paper, the behavior of a light beam in such a tiling, where triangles and hexagons are made of different materials with opposite index of refraction, is considered. It is proved that almost every ray of light is dense in any region of infinite area which consists of the plane with a periodic family of triangles removed. Also, the initial conditions for periodic and the so-called drift-periodic light rays are described.