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Tiling models can reveal unexpected ways in which local constraints give rise to exotic long-range spatial structure. The recently discovered Hat monotile (and its mirror image) has been shown to be aperiodic~[Smith et al., arXiv:2303.10798…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-13 Joshua E. S. Socolar

A longstanding open problem asks for an aperiodic monotile, also known as an "einstein": a shape that admits tilings of the plane, but never periodic tilings. We answer this problem for topological disk tiles by exhibiting a continuum of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-08 David Smith , Joseph Samuel Myers , Craig S. Kaplan , Chaim Goodman-Strauss

Aperiodic tilings are non-periodic tilings characterized by local constraints. They play a key role in the proof of the undecidability of the domino problem (1964) and naturally model quasicrystals (discovered in 1982). A central question…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-04 Thomas Fernique , Mathieu Sablik

Non-periodic tilings with Tile(1, 1) using the substitution method, as presented by Smith et al. in [2] and [3], can be converted into non-periodic tilings with three types of pentagons. When arbitrary replacements are excluded, the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Teruhisa Sugimoto

We study tilings of the plane composed of two repeating tiles of different assigned areas relative to an arbitrary periodic lattice. We classify isoperimetric configurations (i.e., configurations with minimal length of the interfaces) both…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Francesco Nobili , Matteo Novaga , Emanuele Paolini

We define a new family of non-periodic tilings with square tiles that is mutually locally derivable with some family of tilings with isosceles right triangles. Both families are defined by simple local rules, and the proof of their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Nikolay Vereshchagin

We study tilings of the plane that combine strong properties of different nature: combinatorial and algorithmic. We prove existence of a tile set that accepts only quasiperiodic and non-recursive tilings. Our construction is based on the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Bruno Durand , Andrei Romashchenko

A new method for constructing aperiodic tilings is presented. The method is illustrated by constructing a particular tiling and its hull. The properties of this tiling and the hull are studied. In particular it is shown that these tilings…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-18 Dirk Frettlöh , Kurt Hofstetter

The periodic tiling conjecture asserts that if a region $\Sigma\subset \mathbb R^d$ tiles $\mathbb R^d$ by translations then it admits at least one fully periodic tiling. This conjecture is known to hold in $\mathbb R$, and recently it was…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Jaume de Dios Pont , Jan Grebík , Rachel Greenfeld , Jose Madrid

The hexagonal tiling honeycomb is a beautiful structure in 3-dimensional hyperbolic space. It is called {6,3,3} because each hexagon has 6 edges, 3 hexagons meet at each vertex in a Euclidean plane tiled by regular hexagons, and 3 such…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2024-12-03 John C. Baez

General substitution rules for non-periodic rhomb tilings are derived. From the requirement that all substitution tiles consist of a discrete number of prototiles, it follows that a substitution tile with angle s*pi/n must be built out of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-08 T. Hibma

We present here an elementary construction of an aperiodic tile set. Although there already exist dozens of examples of aperiodic tile sets we believe this construction introduces an approach that is different enough to be interesting and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-12-07 Victor Poupet

In 2023, the quest for an aperiodic monotile was answered by the hat monotile. In this article, structures in this aperiodic tiling are discovered, which allow for a direct computation of the tiling, similar to well-known methods for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Ulrich Reitebuch

Exploring nonminimal-rank quasicrystals, which have symmetries that can be found in both periodic and aperiodic crystals, often provides new insight into the physical nature of aperiodic long-range order in models that are easier to treat.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-30 Sam Coates , Akihisa Koga , Toranosuke Matsubara , Ryuji Tamura , Hem Raj Sharma , Ronan McGrath , Ron Lifshitz

We show that convex pentagons that can generate edge-to-edge monohedral tilings of the plane can be classified into exactly eight types. Using these results, it is also proved that no single convex polygon can be an aperiodic prototile…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-11 Teruhisa Sugimoto

We introduce a new family of nonperiodic tilings, based on a substitution rule that generalizes the pinwheel tiling of Conway and Radin. In each tiling the tiles are similar to a single triangular prototile. In a countable number of cases,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Lorenzo Sadun

This paper is about the tiling dynamical systems approach to the study of aperiodic order. We compare and contrast four related types of systems: ordinary (one-dimensional) symbolic systems, one-dimensional tiling systems, multidimensional…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Natalie Priebe Frank

This paper addresses the question of whether a single tile with nearest neighbor matching rules can force a tiling in which the tiles fall into a large number of isohedral classes. A single tile is exhibited that can fill the Euclidean…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-08-22 Joshua E. S. Socolar

Aperiodic crystals constitute a fascinating class of materials that includes incommensurate (IC) modulated structures and quasicrystals (QCs). Although these two categories share a common foundation in the concept of superspace, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-15 Toranosuke Matsubara , Akihisa Koga , Atsushi Takano , Yushu Matsushita , Tomonari Dotera

\noindent The algebraic characterization of classes of locally isomorphic aperiodic tilings, being examples of quantum spaces, is conducted for a certain type of tilings in a manner proposed by A. Connes. These $2$-dimensional tilings are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Johannes Kellendonk