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Triangular dissections, aperiodic tilings and Jones algebras

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-02-03 v2 funct-an Metric Geometry Quantum Algebra

Abstract

The Brattelli diagram associated with a given bicolored Dynkin-Coxeter graph of type AnA_n determines planar fractal sets obtained by infinite dissections of a given triangle. All triangles appearing in the dissection process have angles that are multiples of π/(n+1).\pi/ (n+1). There are usually several possible infinite dissections compatible with a given nn but a given one makes use of n/2n/2 triangle types if nn is even. Jones algebra with index [4 cos2πn+1]1[ 4 \ \cos^2{\pi \over n+1}]^{-1} (values of the discrete range) act naturally on vector spaces associated with those fractal sets. Triangles of a given type are always congruent at each step of the dissection process. In the particular case n=4n=4, there are isometric and the whole structure lead, after proper inflation, to aperiodic Penrose tilings. The ``tilings'' associated with other values of the index are discussed and shown to be encoded by equivalence classes of infinite sequences (with appropriate constraints) using n/2n/2 digits (if nn is even) and generalizing the Fibonacci numbers.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9403142,
  title  = {Triangular dissections, aperiodic tilings and Jones algebras},
  author = {R. Coquereaux},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9403142},
  year   = {2008}
}

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14 pages. Revised version. 18 Postcript figures, a 500 kb uuencoded file called images.uu available by mosaic or gopher from gopher://cpt.univ-mrs.fr/11/preprints/94/fundamental-interactions/94-P.3020

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