Symmetry properties of karyon tilings (Q2153762)

Karyon tilings are multidimensional generalizations of the one-dimensional Fibonacci tilings and the two-dimensional Rauzy tilings. In the previous article [J. Math. Sci., New York 264, No. 2, 122--149 (2022; Zbl 1496.52022); translation from Zap. Nauchn. Semin. POMI 502, 32--73 (2021)], the author has investigated local properties of karyon tilings of the torus \(\mathbb{T}^d\) of an arbitrary dimension \(d\). In the present paper, symmetry properties of karyon tilings of the torus \(\mathbb{T}^d\) are studied. The main results obtained are as follows: \begin{itemize} \item[1.] A karyon tiling is invariant with respect to canonical shift of the torus \(\mathbb{T}^d\). This is a fundamental property of karyon tilings. The action of shift consists in exchanging the karyon of the tiling, which is composed of \(d+1\) parallelepipeds. \item[2.] A nondegenerate karyon tiling has \(2^d\) central symmetries. \end{itemize} In general the presence of symmetries is connected with optimality properties. The karyon tilings have applications to multidimensional continued fractions.