A frieze on a polygon is a map from the diagonals of the polygon to an integral domain which
respects the Ptolemy relation. Conway and Coxeter previously studied positive friezes over
and showed
that they are in bijection with triangulations of a polygon. We extend their work by studying
friezes over
and their relationships to dissections of polygons. We largely focus on the
characterization of unitary friezes that arise from dissecting a polygon into triangles
and quadrilaterals. We identify a family of dissections that gives rise to unitary
friezes and conjecture that this gives a complete classification of dissections which
admit a unitary frieze.
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