Septagonal (Danzer)

Sevenfold diffraction symmetry, Danzer tiling order
quasicrystaldim 2D with 7-fold3 metrics

What It Measures

Does the signal have sevenfold diffraction symmetry — the rarest rotational order in known quasicrystals?

Tests spectral self-similarity at the septagonal ratio rho = 1 + 2*cos(2*pi/7) ~ 2.247, the largest root of x^3 - 2x^2 - x + 1 = 0. The v2 evolution discovered a triple-conjugate ensemble approach: the three roots of the minimal polynomial (rho, its conjugate, and its reciprocal) provide independent spectral probes. Sevenfold symmetry is crystallographically forbidden and extremely rare even among quasicrystals.

Metrics

cubic_coherence

Combined coherence across all three roots of the septagonal minimal polynomial. Tests the algebraic identity x^3 = 2x^2 + x - 1 in spectral space. Evolved via ShinkaEvolve.

z_primary

Cubic-identity spectral self-coherence at r = ρ ≈ 2.247 (P1: x³−2x²−x+1=0).

z_conjugate

Cubic-identity spectral self-coherence at r = ρ−1 ≈ 1.247 (P2: x³+x²−2x−1=0). Independent probe of the same algebraic structure.

Atlas Rankings

cubic_coherence
SourceDomainValue
MFPT Inner Loadedbearing0.2807
2-Torus Quasiperiodicchaos0.2771
Riemann-Hardy-Littlewoodexotic0.2286
···
Circle Map Quasiperiodicchaos-0.2779
Phyllotaxisbio-0.2615
Fibonacci Wordexotic-0.2314
z_conjugate
SourceDomainValue
4-Torus Quasiperiodicchaos0.7680
MFPT Inner Loadedbearing0.7247
2-Torus Quasiperiodicchaos0.7125
···
Padovan Wordexotic-0.6544
Takagi Functionexotic-0.6394
Collatz Stopping Timesnumber_theory-0.6062
z_primary
SourceDomainValue
Bearing Outerbearing0.3781
Bearing Innerbearing0.3223
Blood Pressure Waveformmedical0.3124
···
Circle Map Quasiperiodicchaos-0.5634
Phyllotaxisbio-0.5526
Fibonacci Wordexotic-0.4963

When It Lights Up

Septagonal is the most exotic geometry in the quasicrystal lens. The cubic_coherence combines three polynomial identities (P1 at ρ, P2 at ρ−1, P3 at 1/(ρ²−2ρ) ≈ 1.802) — all three must show coherence simultaneously for genuine 7-fold order. Septagonal completes the quasicrystal lens's coverage of crystallographically forbidden symmetries (5, 7, 8, 12-fold).

(The P3 component is computed internally to support cubic_coherence but is not emitted as a standalone atlas metric — its 2026-05-18 audit found it was the atlas-worst-discriminating metric (F=0.52) and its rank-1 outliers were generic quasiperiodic spectral-dip coincidences, not Danzer 7-fold signal. The fourth previously-emitted metric ratio_symmetry was DROPPED 2026-05-26 — F=1.09 (rank 308/317), and trial-spread σ_t/σ_x=1.49 puts the metric's cross-source variance below the per-trial noise floor. The shared _quasicrystal_spectral_1d helper still works for Penrose's φ and Ammann-Beenker's silver ratio; the failure is specific to atlas signals not having detectable spectral self-similarity at the Septagonal ratio 2.247.)

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