A construction of inflation rules based on \(n\)-fold symmetry (Q1911769)

If a unit circle \(S^1\) is rolled around inside a circle of random 3, a point \(x (\varphi)\) fixed on \(S^1\) will move along a hypercycloid \({\mathcal D}\). Of interest are segments \(G (\varphi) : = \overline {x (\varphi); x (\varphi + \pi)}\), \(0 \leq \varphi \leq 2 \pi\) where \(\varphi\) are of the form \(\nu \pi/n\) and \(n\) is odd number greater than 5 and not divisible by 3. If \(s_\nu = \sin \nu \pi/n\) and \(\mu, \nu, \lambda\) are natural numbers such that \(\mu + \nu + \lambda = n\), there is triangle with angles \(\mu \pi/n\), \(\nu \pi/n\), \(\lambda \pi/n\) and opposite sides of lengths \(4s_1 s_\mu\), \(4s_1 s_\nu\), \(4s_1 s_\lambda\). Triangles supplied with arrows on the sides are prototiles. For a given \(n\) and \(2 \leq k \leq n\) is defined inflation for every prototile and also inflation factor \(\eta\). There are investigated some properties of such tilings and given examples for some \(n\). The main result is that none of these tilings permits two linearly independent translations. For some of them is proved that tilings have no period at all (does not permit any translation), and for some that the Fourier transform contains a \(\mathbb{Z}\)-module of Dirac deltas.