Counting Polygons and Fishes in Uniform Tessellations of the Hyperbolic Plane

Abstract

Summary In this article we consider uniform tessellations of the hyperbolic plane. Two counts are performed. The first, considers the number of polygons in layers of the hyptagrid and is shown to be related to Fibonacci numbers. The second, considers the number of fishes in layers of a superimposed octagrid on Escher’s circle limit III. To excute these counts we solve two linear recurrence relations, homogeneous and non-homogeneous. The initial conditions are set up by performing tessellations using a software in hyperbolic geometry.