Search arXiv⌕ Search

arXiv subjects

Creighton Dement

Publications and source records attributed to Creighton Dement.

2 recordsLinked to original sources

Bitwise Triangular Coordinates for Central Products of Quaternion Groups: Floretion Base Vectors, Digitwise S3-Actions, and Centralizer Tiles

We give a self-contained treatment of the floretion coordinate model for the central product of $n$ copies of the quaternion group $Q_8$. Positive basis elements are words of length $n$ in the alphabet $\{1,2,4,7\}$, identified with $i,j,k,e$, and the resulting real algebra is $\mathbb{H}^{\otimes n}$. In these coordinates, Boolean multiplication, recursive triangular tilings, digitwise $S_3$-actions, reflection anti-automorphisms, centralizer tiles, and axis-landing phenomena admit a common description. A local XNOR/AND rule recovers quaternionic basis multiplication in every order. The centroid map for the recursive triangular tiling intertwines the digitwise $S_3$-action with the dihedral action on the triangle, while odd digit permutations reverse multiplication order. Synchronized cyclic changes in selected coordinates produce equilateral centroid triangles; their oriented vertex product gives an explicit symbolic center, and a parity criterion characterizes when this agrees with the Euclidean center. For every non-unit basis word, the centralizer in the signed group has cardinality $4^n$ and its positive tile set occupies one half of the order-$n$ tiling. Its positive-product component $C_+(b)$ is invariant under the global cyclic digit action and, apart from the identity tile, decomposes into centered equilateral $C_3$-orbits; the negative-product component $C_-(b)$ is a transversal of the complementary orbit family. A parity-dependent family from the signed centralizer decomposition further shows that products symmetric about one triangular axis may land on another axis, lose all triangular reflection symmetry in odd orders, or acquire enhanced symmetry in order two.

math.GM↗

Equilateral Completion in Floretion Triangular Coordinates: Locality, Product Points, and Reflection Symmetry

We study unordered triples of order-$n$ floretion base vectors whose tile centroids form nondegenerate equilateral triangles. A scaled integer centroid map turns Euclidean completion into exact arithmetic on a triangular lattice, and a residue obstruction modulo $3$ shows that every equilateral centroid triangle uses three tiles of one orientation. Combined with finite triangular-lattice completion counts, this gives $|E_n|=4^n(4^n-1)/12$. For synchronized local $γ$-cycles, $|L_n|=(7^n-4^n)/3$ and $|L_n|/|E_n|\sim4(7/16)^n$, while on the no-$e$ support $S_n=\{i,j,k\}^n$ locality is exhaustive and $|E_n^S|=|L_n^S|=(2^n-1)3^{n-1}$. The union of the three main axes supports exactly $|E_n^{\rm ax}|=4^{n-1}+2^n-2$ equilateral triangles, split into the branches $x=y=z$ and $x+y+z=0$. For $T\in E_n$, the unsigned vertex product defines a product point $C_T$; a digitwise parity criterion characterizes $C_T=Q_T$ on local cycles and yields Fibonacci subfamilies. Multiplication-generation is equivalent to $p(T)=e_n$, hence $C_T=0$; locally this gives exactly the nontrivial global $γ$-orbits, and exact enumeration through order $6$ finds no nonlocal example. Retaining the signs discarded by the unsigned product gives a second classifier: a triangle has scalar vertex-sum square exactly when its three vertices pairwise anticommute. For local cycles this occurs exactly when $|S|$ is odd, giving $|\mathrm{AC}_n\cap L_n|=(7^n-1)/6$, while nonlocal pairwise-anticommuting examples already occur in order $3$.

math.CO↗