Spatial chaos of Wang tiles with two symbols
Abstract
This investigation completely classifies the spatial chaos problem in plane edge coloring (Wang tiles) with two symbols. For a set of Wang tiles , spatial chaos occurs when the spatial entropy is positive. is called a minimal cycle generator if and whenever , where is the set of all periodic patterns on generated by . Given a set of Wang tiles , write , where , , are minimal cycle generators and contains no minimal cycle generator except those contained in . Then, the positivity of spatial entropy is completely determined by . Furthermore, there are 39 equivalent classes of marginal positive-entropy (MPE) sets of Wang tiles and 18 equivalent classes of saturated zero-entropy (SZE) sets of Wang tiles. For a set of Wang tiles , is positive if and only if contains an MPE set, and is zero if and only if is a subset of an SZE set.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1507.04070,
title = {Spatial chaos of Wang tiles with two symbols},
author = {Jin-Yu Chen and Yu-Jie Chen and Wen-Guei Hu and Song-Sun Lin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.04070},
year = {2016}
}