A chiral aperiodic monotile
Combinatorics
2024-10-01 v2 Discrete Mathematics
Metric Geometry
Abstract
The recently discovered "hat" aperiodic monotile mixes unreflected and reflected tiles in every tiling it admits, leaving open the question of whether a single shape can tile aperiodically using translations and rotations alone. We show that a close relative of the hat -- the equilateral member of the continuum to which it belongs -- is a weakly chiral aperiodic monotile: it admits only non-periodic tilings if we forbid reflections by fiat. Furthermore, by modifying this polygon's edges we obtain a family of shapes called Spectres that are strictly chiral aperiodic monotiles: they admit only chiral non-periodic tilings based on a hierarchical substitution system.
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@article{arxiv.2305.17743,
title = {A chiral aperiodic monotile},
author = {David Smith and Joseph Samuel Myers and Craig S. Kaplan and Chaim Goodman-Strauss},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.17743},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
25 pages, 12 figures. Copyedited journal version of article