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An Application of Topological Multiple Recurrence to Tiling

Dynamical Systems 2008-09-09 v1

Abstract

We show that given any tiling of Euclidean space, any geometric patterns of points, we can find a patch of tiles (of arbitrarily large size) so that copies of this patch appear in the tiling nearly centered on a scaled and translated version of the pattern. The rather simple proof uses Furstenberg's topological multiple recurrence theorem.

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@article{arxiv.0809.1421,
  title  = {An Application of Topological Multiple Recurrence to Tiling},
  author = {Rafael de la Llave and Alistair Windsor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.1421},
  year   = {2008}
}
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