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An alternative proof for an aperiodic monotile

Metric Geometry 2025-01-22 v7 Combinatorics Dynamical Systems Number Theory

Abstract

We give an alternative simple proof that the monotile introduced by Smith, Myers, Kaplan and Goodman-Strass is aperiodic.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2307.12322,
  title  = {An alternative proof for an aperiodic monotile},
  author = {Shigeki Akiyama and Yoshiaki Araki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.12322},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Minor corrections in this version. To appear in Discrete and Computational Geometry. There are drastic changes between Versions 4 and 5. Construction of tiling became very simple, by using central words

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