arXiv · 1904.11782
A forest of Eisensteinian triplets
Abstract
In 1934 B. Berggren first discovered the surprising result that every Pythagorean triplet is the pre product of the triplet (3, 4, 5) presented as a column by a product of three matrices, that every triplet is obtained in this manner exactly once and in primitive form. In this paper we show a similar result for integer triangles with an angle of 60 degrees (also known as Eisensteinian triplets). We show that any such triangle is obtained by pre-multiplication (7,8,5) or (13,15,7) by a product of five matrices. The result might have applications in enumerating points with rational distance from the origin on the hexagonal lattice.
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Noam Zimhoni. 2019-04-26. A forest of Eisensteinian triplets. https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2020.1760018
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