An aperiodic monotile that forces nonperiodicity through dendrites

Autor: Michael Mampusti, Michael F. Whittaker
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 52:942-959
ISSN: 1469-2120
0024-6093
DOI: 10.1112/blms.12375
Popis: We introduce a new type of aperiodic hexagonal monotile; a prototile that admits infinitely many tilings of the plane, but any such tiling lacks any translational symmetry. Adding a copy of our monotile to a patch of tiles must satisfy two rules that apply only to adjacent tiles. The first is inspired by the Socolar--Taylor monotile, but can be realised by shape alone. The second is a local growth rule; a direct isometry of our monotile can be added to any patch of tiles provided that a tree on the monotile connects continuously with a tree on one of its neighbouring tiles. This condition forces tilings to grow along dendrites, which ultimately results in nonperiodic tilings. Our local growth rule initiates a new method to produce tilings of the plane.
19 pages, final version
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