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This is a survey article concerning applications of Hilbert's metric in the analysis and dynamics of linear and nonlinear mappings on cones. It will appear as a chapter in the "Handbook of Hilbert geometry", ed. G. Besson, A. Papadopoulos…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-01 Bas Lemmens , Roger Nussbaum

Impulsive gravitational waves in Minkowski space were introduced by Roger Penrose at the end of the 1960s, and have been widely studied over the decades. Here we focus on nonexpanding waves which later have been generalized to impulses…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-14 Jiri Podolsky , Roland Steinbauer

In a recent article by C. Porrier, A. Blondin Mass\'e and A. Goupil, a first bi-infinite fully leafed induced subcaterpillar of Penrose P2 tilings is presented. In this paper, we formally construct this caterpillar for the first time. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Mathieu Cloutier , Alain Goupil , Alexandre Blondin Massé

The article 'A "regular" pentagonal tiling of the plane' by P. L. Bowers and K. Stephenson defines a conformal pentagonal tiling. This is a tiling of the plane with remarkable combinatorial and geometric properties. However, it doesn't have…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-05-12 Maria Ramirez-Solano

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…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-08 J. -R. Chazottes , J. -M. Gambaudo , F. Gautero

In contrast to many known results concerning periodic tilings of the Euclidean plane with pentagons, here tilings with rotational symmetry are investigated. A certain class of convex pentagons is introduced. It can be shown that for any…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Bernhard Klaassen

A plane tiling consisting of congruent copies of a shape is isohedral provided that for any pair of copies, there exists a symmetry of the tiling mapping one copy to the other. We give a $O(n\log^2{n})$-time algorithm for deciding if a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-03-10 Stefan Langerman , Andrew Winslow

For a large class of tilings, including the Penrose tiling in two dimension as well as the icosahedral ones in 3 dimension, the continuous hull of such a tiling inherits a minimal lamination structure with flat leaves and a transversal…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jean Bellissard , Riccardo Benedetti , Jean-Marc Gambaudo

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

Enumeration of tilings is the mathematical study concerning the total number of coverings of regions by similar pieces without gaps or overlaps. Enumeration of tilings has become a vibrant subfield of combinatorics with connections and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Tri Lai

The article presents a new approach to euclidean plane geometry based on projective geometric algebra (PGA). It is designed for anyone with an interest in plane geometry, or who wishes to familiarize themselves with PGA. After a brief…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Charles G. Gunn

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

Results on $8$-dimensional topological planes are scattered in the literature. It is the aim of the present paper to give a survey of these geometries, in particular of information obtained after the appearance of the treatise Compact…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-04 Helmut R. Salzmann

In this article we study some geometric properties of a non-trivial square tile (a non-trivial square tile is a non-constant function on a square). Consider infinitely many copies of this single square tile and cover the plane with them,…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2012-06-19 Jorge Rezende

Convex hexagons that can tile the plane have been classified into three types. For the generic cases (not necessarily convex) of the three types and two other special cases, we classify tilings of the plane under the assumption that all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Xinlu Yu , Erxiao Wang , Min Yan

The book is designed for a semester-long course in Foundations of Geometry and meant to be rigorous, conservative, elementary and minimalist. List of topics: Euclidean geometry: The Axioms / Half-planes / Congruent triangles / Perpendicular…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Anton Petrunin

It is shown that the descending plane partitions of Andrews can be geometrically realized as cyclically symmetric rhombus tilings of a certain hexagon where an equilateral triangle of side length 2 has been removed from its centre. Thus,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Christian Krattenthaler

We study the minimal complexity of tilings of a plane with a given tile set. We note that every tile set admits either no tiling or some tiling with O(n) Kolmogorov complexity of its n-by-n squares. We construct tile sets for which this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Bruno Durand , Leonid A. Levin , Alexander Shen

Defant, Li, Propp, and Young recently resolved two enumerative conjectures of Propp concerning the tilings of regions in the hexagonal grid called benzels using two types of prototiles called stones and bones (with varying constraints on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Colin Defant , Leigh Foster , Rupert Li , James Propp , Benjamin Young

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