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Octagonal tilings with three prototiles

Soft Condensed Matter 2025-02-07 v1 Other Condensed Matter Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Motivated by theoretically and experimentally observed structural phases with octagonal symmetry, we introduce a family of octagonal tilings which are composed of three prototiles. We define our tilings with respect to two non-negative integers, mm and nn, so that the inflation factor of a given tiling is δ(m,n)=m+n(1+2)\delta_{(m,n)}=m+n (1+\sqrt{2}). As such, we show that our family consists of an infinite series of tilings which can be delineated into separate `cases' which are determined by the relationship between mm and nn. Similarly, we present the primitive substitution rules or decomposition of our prototiles, along with the statistical properties of each case, demonstrating their dependence on these integers.

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@article{arxiv.2502.04133,
  title  = {Octagonal tilings with three prototiles},
  author = {April Lynne D. Say-awen and Sam Coates},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.04133},
  year   = {2025}
}

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