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Symmetry properties of Penrose type tilings

Mathematical Physics 2008-10-10 v2 Materials Science math.MP

Abstract

The Penrose tiling is directly related to the atomic structure of certain decagonal quasicrystals and, despite its aperiodicity, is highly symmetric. It is known that the numbers 1, τ-\tau , (τ)2(-\tau)^2, (τ)3(-\tau)^3, ..., where τ=(1+5)/2\tau =(1+\sqrt{5})/2, are scaling factors of the Penrose tiling. We show that the set of scaling factors is much larger, and for most of them the number of the corresponding inflation centers is infinite.

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@article{arxiv.0710.3845,
  title  = {Symmetry properties of Penrose type tilings},
  author = {Nicolae Cotfas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.3845},
  year   = {2008}
}

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Paper submitted to Phil. Mag. (for Proceedings of Quasicrystals: The Silver Jubilee, Tel Aviv, 14-19 October, 2007)