English

Tiling the Euclidean and Hyperbolic planes with ribbons

Geometric Topology 2019-04-09 v1

Abstract

We describe a method to classify crystallographic tilings of the Euclidean and hyperbolic planes by tiles whose stabiliser group contains translation isometries or whose topology is not that of a closed disk. We tackle this problem from two different viewpoints, one with constructive techniques to enumerate such tilings and the other from a viewpoint of classification. The methods are purely topological and generalise Delaney-Dress combinatorial tiling theory. The classification is up to equivariant equivalence and is achieved by viewing tilings as decorations of orbifolds.

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@article{arxiv.1904.03788,
  title  = {Tiling the Euclidean and Hyperbolic planes with ribbons},
  author = {Benedikt Kolbe and Vanessa Robins},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.03788},
  year   = {2019}
}
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