Tilings of the plane and Thurston semi-norm
Metric Geometry
2014-07-08 v2 Geometric Topology
Abstract
We show that the problem of tiling the Euclidean plane with a finite set of polygons (up to translation) boils down to prove the existence of zeros of a non-negative convex function defined on a finite-dimensional simplex. This function is a generalisation, in the framework of branched surfaces, of the Thurston semi-norm originally defined for compact -manifolds.
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@article{arxiv.1205.5118,
title = {Tilings of the plane and Thurston semi-norm},
author = {J. -R. Chazottes and J. -M. Gambaudo and F. Gautero},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.5118},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
14 pages, 5 figures. To appear in Geometria Dedicata