Another Veech triangle
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Abstract:
We show that the triangle with angles $\frac {\pi }{12}$, $\frac {\pi }{3}$, and $\frac {7 \pi }{12}$ has the lattice property and we compute this triangle’s Veech group.References
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Additional Information
- W. Patrick Hooper
- Affiliation: The City College of New York, New York, New York 10031
- MR Author ID: 759028
- Email: whooper@ccny.cuny.edu
- Received by editor(s): July 25, 2011
- Published electronically: July 20, 2012
- Additional Notes: The author was supported by N.S.F. Postdoctoral Fellowship DMS-0803013
- Communicated by: Michael Wolf
- © Copyright 2012
American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 141 (2013), 857-865
- MSC (2010): Primary 14H37
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2012-11379-6
- MathSciNet review: 3003678