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Rotationally Symmetric Tilings with Convex Pentagons and Hexagons

Metric Geometry 2025-07-02 v3 Combinatorics

Abstract

In contrast to many known results concerning periodic tilings of the Euclidean plane with pentagons, here tilings with rotational symmetry are investigated. A certain class of convex pentagons is introduced. It can be shown that for any given symmetry type Cn\mathbf{C}_{n} or Dn\mathbf{D}_{n} there exists a monohedral tiling generated by a pentagon from this class. For n>1n>1 each of these tilings is also a spiral tiling with nn arms. As a byproduct it follows that the same holds for convex hexagons.

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@article{arxiv.1509.06297,
  title  = {Rotationally Symmetric Tilings with Convex Pentagons and Hexagons},
  author = {Bernhard Klaassen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.06297},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

8 pages, 10 figures. Tilings in $2$ dimensions, preprint to appear in Elemente der Mathematik (EMS) Vol. 71 (2016)