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We show that a single prototile can fill space uniformly but not admit a periodic tiling. A two-dimensional, hexagonal prototile with markings that enforce local matching rules is proven to be aperiodic by two independent methods. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Joshua E. S. Socolar , Joan M. Taylor

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

Starting with a substitution tiling, we demonstrate a method for constructing infinitely many new substitution tilings. Each of these new tilings is derived from a graph iterated function system and the tiles have fractal boundary. We show…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-09-19 Natalie Priebe Frank , Samuel B. G. Webster , Michael F. Whittaker

It is shown that there are primitive substitution tilings with dense tile orientations invariant under n-fold rotation for n=2,3,4,5,6,8. The proof for dense tile orientations uses a general result about irrationality of angles in certain…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-28 Dirk Frettlöh , April L. D. Say-awen , M. L. A. N. de las Peñas

We investigate the dynamics of tiling dynamical systems and their deformations. If two tiling systems have identical combinatorics, then the tiling spaces are homeomorphic, but their dynamical properties may differ. There is a natural map…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-07-11 Alex Clark , Lorenzo Sadun

We consider tiling dynamical systems and topological conjugacies between them. We prove that the criterion of being finite type is invariant under topological conjugacy. For substitution tiling systems under rather general conditions,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Charles Holton , Charles Radin , Lorenzo Sadun

A new method for constructing self-referential tilings of Euclidean space from a graph directed iterated function system, based on a combinatorial structure we call a pre-tree, is introduced. In the special case that we refer to as…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Michael Barnsley , Andrew Vince

Cut and project sets are obtained by projecting an irrational slice through a lattice to a lower dimensional subspace. Under standard conditions, the resulting pattern has no translational periods even though it retains some regularity of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Edmund Harriss , Henna Koivusalo , James J. Walton

A method is described for constructing, with computer assistance, planar substitution tilings that have n-fold rotational symmetry. This method uses as prototiles the set of rhombs with angles that are integer multiples of pi/n, and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Gregory R. Maloney

This paper provides explicit justification for a method of canonical scalings of tilings of euclidean spaces. We present a new combinatorially-geometrical approach for constructing a generatriss of a tiling. The approach is based on an…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Andrey Gavrilyuk

Dimension-varying linear systems are investigated. First, a dimension-free state space is proposed. A cross dimensional distance is constructed to glue vectors of different dimensions together to form a cross-dimensional topological space.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-04-17 Daizhan Cheng , Zhenhui Xu , Tielong Shen

We investigate the dynamics of substitution subshifts and their associated tiling spaces. For a given subshift, the associated tiling spaces are all homeomorphic, but their dynamical properties may differ. We give criteria for such a tiling…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-07-11 Alex Clark , Lorenzo Sadun

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

We determine the topology of the moduli space of periodic tilings of the plane by parallelograms. To each such tiling, we associate combinatorial data via the zone curves of the tiling. We show that all tilings with the same combinatorial…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-01 Drew Reisinger , Matthias Weber

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…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Benedikt Kolbe , Vanessa Robins

A combinatorial substitution is a map over tilings which allows to define sets of tilings with a strong hierarchical structure. In this paper, we show that such sets of tilings are sofic, that is, can be enforced by finitely many local…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-10 Thomas Fernique , Nicolas Ollinger

Two-dimensional random tilings of rhombi can be seen as projections of two-dimensional membranes embedded in hypercubic lattices of higher dimensional spaces. Here, we consider tilings projected from a $D$-dimensional space. We study the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 N. Destainville , M. Widom , R. Mosseri , F. Bailly

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

Model sets (or cut and project sets) provide a familiar and commonly used method of constructing and studying nonperiodic point sets. Here we extend this method to situations where the internal spaces are no longer Euclidean, but instead…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Michael Baake , Robert V. Moody , Martin Schlottmann

In the study of aperiodic order and mathematical models of quasicrystals, questions regarding equivalence relations on Delone sets naturally arise. This work is dedicated to the bounded displacement (BD) equivalence relation, and especially…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Dirk Frettlöh , Yotam Smilansky , Yaar Solomon