Sub Rosa, a system of quasiperiodic rhombic substitution tilings with \(n\)-fold rotational symmetry (Q309662)

The authors construct edge-to-edge rhombic substitution tilings of the plane. Tiles are rhombuses with unit sides and angles of \(\frac{x\pi} n\) and \(\frac{y\pi} n\) where positive integers \(x\) and \(y\) satisfy \(x + y = n\). A substitution tiling is such a tiling that every finite patch of tiles appears in some higher order image of some tile. A tiling is uniformly recurrent (or quasiperiodic) if every finite patch that appears somewhere in the tiling appears within distance \(D\) of every point of the plane, for some \(D\). The problem under consideration is to find a primitive substitution that generates a tiling with \(n\)-fold rotational symmetry. For values \(n = 2\), 3, 4, and 6, there are periodic solutions. The famious Penrose rhombuses provide a solution in the case \(n = 5\), and there are known solutions for \(n = 8\), \(n = 7\). In the paper under review the following theorem is proved: for every \(n\), there exists a quasiperiodic rhombic substitution tiling with \(2n\)-fold rotational symmetry.