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We present a single, connected tile which can tile the plane but only non-periodically. The tile is hexagonal with edge markings, which impose simple rules as to how adjacent tiles are allowed to meet across edges. The first of these rules…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-19 James J. Walton , Michael F. Whittaker

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

A group-theoretical approach to the construction of quasiperiodic tilings of a Euclidean plane, possessing five-fold symmetry, is applied. Of the infinitely many of variants of quasiperiodic partitions of the plane, possessing the dihedral…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Alexander S. Prokhoda

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

In this paper, we propose an Integer Linear Model whose solutions are the aperiodic rhythms tiling with a given rhythm A. We show how this model can be used to efficiently check the necessity of the Coven-Meyerowitz's $(T2)$ condition and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Gennaro Auricchio , Luca Ferrarini , Greta Lanzarotto

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

A brief history of planar aperiodic tile sets is presented, starting from the Domino Problem proposed by Hao Wang in 1961. We provide highlights that led to the discovery of the Taylor--Socolar aperiodic monotile in 2010 and the Hat and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Tinka Bruneau , Michael F. Whittaker

Suppose $P$ is a symmetric convex polygon in the plane. We give a polynomial time algorithm that decides if $P$ can tile the plane by transations at some level (not necessarily at level one; this is multiple tiling). The main technical…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Mihail N. Kolountzakis

The decades-long search for a shape that tiles the plane only aperiodically under translations and rotations recently ended with the discovery of the `spectre' aperiodic monotile. In this setting we study the dimer model, in which dimers…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-02 Shobhna Singh , Felix Flicker

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 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 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

The Wang tiling is a classical problem in combinatorics. A major theoretical question is to find a (small) set of tiles which tiles the plane only aperiodically. In this case, resulting tilings are rather restrictive. On the other hand,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Alexandre Derouet-Jourdan , Shizuo Kaji , Yoshihiro Mizoguchi

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

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

An aperiodic prototile is a shape for which infinitely many copies can be arranged to fill Euclidean space completely with no overlaps, but not in a periodic pattern. Tiling theorists refer to such a prototile as an "einstein" (a German pun…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-09-16 Joshua E. S. Socolar , Joan M. Taylor

We study $C^1$-regular surfaces in $R^3$ that admit tilings by a finite number of rigid motion congruence classes of tiles. We construct examples with various topologies and present a framework for a systematic study, mainly concentrating…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-15 David Brander , Jens Gravesen

Sets of three types of convex pentagons that are aperiodic with no matching conditions on the edges are created from a chiral aperiodic monotile Tile(1, 1). This method divides the interior of Tile(1,1) into five convex polygons with five…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Teruhisa Sugimoto

Recently, two extraordinary results on aperiodic monotiles have been obtained in two different settings. One is a family of aperiodic monotiles in the plane discovered by Smith, Myers, Kaplan and Goodman-Strauss in 2023, where rotation is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Chao Yang , Zhujun Zhang

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