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Geometry of plane sections of the infinite regular skew polyhedron {4, 6 | 4}

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The asymptotic behavior of open plane sections of triply periodic surfaces is dictated, for an open dense set of plane directions, by an integer second homology class of the three-torus. The dependence of this homology class on the direction can have a rather rich structure, leading in special cases to a fractal. In this paper we present in detail the results for the skew polyhedron {4, 6 | 4} and in particular we show that in this case a fractal arises and that such a fractal can be generated through an elementary algorithm, which in turn allows us to verify for this case a conjecture of Novikov that such fractals have zero measure.

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  1. INFN Cagliari, Monserrato, CA, Italy

    Roberto DeLeo

  2. Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    Ivan A. Dynnikov

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DeLeo, R., Dynnikov, I.A. Geometry of plane sections of the infinite regular skew polyhedron {4, 6 | 4}. Geom Dedicata 138, 51–67 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-008-9298-1

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