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The paper provides an elementary proof of Kenyon's necessary condition for the existence of a periodic tiling of the plane by squares with given periods. A similar new result on covering both sides of a rectangle by nonoverlaping squares is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-12 Mikhail Dmitriev

A plethora of unconventional localization phenomena and fractal features of linear spectrum observed in quasiperiodic structures have been accompanied by a long-standing quest for the geometrical elements and structures that permit tilings…

In the present paper, as we did previously in [7], we investigate the relations between the geometric properties of tilings and the algebraic properties of associated relational structures. Our study is motivated by the existence of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2010-02-19 Francis Oger

We present a construction of a family of non-periodic tilings using elementary tools such as modular arithmetic and vector geometry. These tilings exhibit a distinct type of structural regularity, which we term modulo-staggered rotational…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Miki Imura

The strict geometric rules that define aperiodic tilings lead to the unique spectral and transport properties of quasicrystals, but also limit our ability to design them. In this Letter, we explore a novel example of a continuously tunable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Hector Roche Carrasco , Justin Schirmann , Aurelien Mordret , Adolfo G. Grushin

A general construction principle of inflation rules for decagonal quasiperiodic tilings is proposed. The prototiles are confined to be polygons with unit edges. An inflation rule for a tiling is the combination of an expansion and a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-27 Nobuhisa Fujita

We provide a definitive classification of all finite sets of regular polygons that admit a tiling of the hyperbolic plane, thereby establishing the decidability of the Domino Problem for this class of prototiles. We show that admissibility…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Arun Maiti

An aperiodic tile set was first constructed by R.Berger while proving the undecidability of the domino problem. It turned out that aperiodic tile sets appear in many topics ranging from logic (the Entscheidungsproblem) to physics…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-01-27 Bruno Durand , Andrei Romashchenko , Alexander Shen

We generalize the notion of (geometric) substitution rule to obtain overlapping substitutions. Our motivating example is the substitution presented in Ziherl, Dotera and Bekku \cite{DBZ}, which features a substitution matrix with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Shigeki Akiyama , Yasushi Nagai , Shu-Qin Zhang

A new kind of aperiodic tiling is introduced. It is shown to underlie a structure obtained as a superposition of waves with incommensurate periods. Its connections to other other tilings and quasicrystals are discussed.

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-11-28 A. Losev

We give an explicit algorithm to construct aperiodic tile sets based on Sturmian words of quadratic slopes. The method works for any quadratic irrational slope, and we can produce infinitely many aperiodic tile sets whose underlying scaling…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Shigeki Akiyama , Tadahisa Hamada , Katsuki Ito

Mathematicians have been interested in non-periodic tilings of space for decades; however, it was the unexpected discovery of non-periodically ordered structures in intermetallic alloys which brought this subject into the limelight. These…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Uwe Grimm , Peter Kramer

Recent studies of holographic tensor network models defined on regular tessellations of hyperbolic space have not yet addressed the underlying discrete geometry of the boundary. We show that the boundary degrees of freedom naturally live on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-22 Latham Boyle , Madeline Dickens , Felix Flicker

A convex pentagonal tile is a convex pentagon that admits a monohedral tiling. We show that a convex pentagonal tile that admits a periodic tiling has a property in which the sum of three internal angles of the pentagon is equal to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-07 Teruhisa Sugimoto

One well studied way to construct quasicrystalline tilings is via inflate-and-subdivide (a.k.a. substitution) rules. These produce self-similar tilings--the Penrose, octagonal, and pinwheel tilings are famous examples. We present a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-11-22 Natalie Priebe Frank

To understand an aperiodic tiling (or a quasicrystal modeled on an aperiodic tiling), we construct a space of similar tilings, on which the group of translations acts naturally. This space is then an (abstract) dynamical system. Dynamical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Lorenzo Sadun

This is a chapter in an incoming book on aperiodic order. We review results about the topology, the dynamics, and the combinatorics of aperiodically ordered tilings obtained with the tools of noncommutative geometry.

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2014-12-18 Antoine Julien , Johannes Kellendonk , Jean Savinien

It is proved that homeomorphic images of certain two-dimensional aperiodic tilings, such as Ammann-A2 tilings, are recognizable, in both mathematical and practical senses. One implication of the results is that it is possible to search for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Louisa Barnsley , Michael Barnsley , Andrew Vince

An aperiodic tile set was first constructed by R. Berger while proving the undecidability of the domino problem. It turned out that aperiodic tile sets appear in many topics ranging from logic (the Entscheidungsproblem) to physics…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-12-05 Bruno Durand , Andrei Romashchenko , Alexander Shen

We present a substitution rule for a rhomb tiling with 10-fold rotational symmetry. The tiling is closely related to the Penrose rhomb tilings and can be obtained from the pentagrid construction. We introduce a finite set of marked…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Miki Imura