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Special Issue for Slavic Jablan; Guest Editors: L. H. Kauffman, R. Sazdanovic and S. LambropoulouNo Access

Fractal simplices

    https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218216516410030Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)

    There are three constructions of which I know that yield higher dimensional analogues of Sierpinski’s triangle. The most obvious is to remove the open convex hull of the midpoints of the edges of the n-simplex. The complement is a union of simplices. Continue the removal recursively in each of the remaining sub-simplices. The result is an uncountably infinite figure in n-dimensional space that is Cantor-like in a manner analogous to the Sierpinski triangle. A countable analogue is obtained by means of playing the chaos game in the n-simplex. In this “game” one chooses a random (n+1)-ary sequence; starting from the initial point (that is identified with a vertex of the simplex), one continues to plot points by moving half-again as much towards the next point in the sequence. The resulting plot converges to the figure described above. Similarly, coloring the multinomial coefficients black or white according to their parity results in a similar figure, when the n-dimensional analogue of the Pascal triangle is rescaled and embedded in space.

    This paper is dedicated to the memory of Slavik Jablan. He was a man, whom I first met in Delphi in 1998 at the Knots in Hellas conference. There he spoke about Conway templates. As with many mathematicians, I only met and interacted with him at conferences and via email.

    AMSC: 28-02, 28A78, 28A80