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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

Aperiodic tiling --- a form of complex global geometric structure arising through locally checkable, constant-time matching rules --- has long been closely tied to a wide range of physical, information-theoretic, and foundational…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-21 Chaim Goodman-Strauss

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

Recently "the Hat" monotile was introduced into the family of aperiodic tilings and quasicrystals boasting physical properties lying at the boundary of ordered and disordered systems. Here we study the two-dimensional wave transport,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Valtýr Kári Daníelsson , Helgi Sigurðsson

This paper describes the celebrated aperiodic hat tiling by Smith et al. [Comb. Theory 8 (2024), 6] as generated by an overlapping iterated function system. We briefly introduce and study infinite sequences of iterated function systems that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Corey de Wit

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

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

Icosahedral tilings, although non-periodic, are known to be characterized by their configurations of some finite size. This characterization has also been expressed in terms of a simple alternation condition. We provide an alternative proof…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Nicolas Bédaride , Thomas Fernique

The recently discovered chiral monotile Tile(1,1) is tiling the plane in a quasiperiodic fashion by taking twelve different orientations when applying $2\pi/12$ rotation. An homochiral inflation construction of such a quasiperiodic tiling…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Marianne Imperor-Clerc , Jean-François Sadoc

A new family of decagonal quasiperiodic tilings are constructed by the use of generalized point substitution processes, which is a new substitution formalism developed by the author [N. Fujita, Acta Cryst. A 65, 342 (2009)]. These tilings…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Nobuhisa Fujita

This paper first discusses the size and orientation of hat supertiles. Fibonacci and Lucas sequences, as well as a third integer sequence linearly related to the Lucas sequence are involved. The result is then generalized to any aperiodic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Shiying Dong

This article, written for undergraduate mathematics students, provides an accessible introduction to a few key problems in tiling theory: Heesch's problem, the isohedral number problem, and the existence of an aperiodic monotile. I…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Craig S. Kaplan

We give a constructive method that can decrease the number of prototiles needed to tile a space. We achieve this by exchanging edge to edge matching rules for a small atlas of permitted patches. This method is illustrated with Wang tiles,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-03-26 David Fletcher

Symmetry sharing facilitates coherent interfaces which can transition from periodic to aperiodic structures. Motivated by the design and construction of such systems, we present hexagonal aperiodic tilings with a single edge-length which…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-22 Sam Coates

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

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

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…

We present aperiodic sets of prototiles whose shapes are based on the well-known Penrose rhomb tiling. Some decorated prototiles lead to an exact Penrose rhomb tiling without any matching rules. We also give an approximate solution to an…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Mike Winkler

We know that tilesets that can tile the plane always admit a quasi-periodic tiling [4, 8], yet they hold many uncomputable properties [3, 11, 21, 25]. The quasi-periodicity function is one way to measure the regularity of a quasi-periodic…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2010-12-07 Alexis Ballier , Emmanuel Jeandel

We prove that acylindrically hyperbolic groups are monotileable. That is, every finite subset of the group is contained in a finite tile. This provides many new examples of monotileable groups, and progress on the question of whether every…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Joseph MacManus , Lawk Mineh