Notes on vertex atlas of Danzer tiling (Q449630)

The authors investigate a planar tiling, due to \textit{K.-P. Nischke} and \textit{L. Danzer} [Discrete Comput. Geom. 15, No. 2, 221--236 (1996; Zbl 0849.52016)], which is defined by a primitive non-Pisot inflation rule with 3 triangular prototiles. The hull (or LI class) of the tiling has sevenfold symmetry as a set, but no element of the hull shows individual sevenfold symmetry. This well-known fact is proved in this paper and compared with the (different) situation of the rhombic Penrose tiling. Contrary to the claim of the authors, the lack of individual symmetry is not exotic, but quite common (it also occurs for the Tuebingen triangle tiling, see [\textit{M. Baake} et al., Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 4, No. 15--16, 2217--2268 (1990; Zbl 0743.51015)] or [\textit{M. Baake} et al., J. Phys. A, Math. Gen. 30, No. 9, 3029--3056 (1997; Zbl 0919.52015)]. Another aspect of the paper concerns the usability of the vertex atlas as a set of aperiodic local rules, which substantiates a statement in the original paper by Nischke and Danzer. As expected (and intended), the vertex atlas serves for the inflation tiling hull, and not for its symmetry-extended version, which is non-minimal as a dynamical system under the translation action (and thus a less natural object to consider). The additional claims about the rhombic Penrose tilings have appeared in numerous articles, sometimes with greater precision. For instance, there are 4 Penrose tilings with fivefold symmetry, not 2 as claimed in Figure 11, since the reflections in the horizontal axis are also elements of the hull. These 4 tilings form a 4-cycle under inflation [Baake et al., 1997, loc. cit.]. The reader should be aware that the mathematical developments since 1990 are not sufficiently reflected by the references (compare [\textit{E. A. Robinson} jun., Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 348, No. 11, 4447--4464 (1996; Zbl 0876.28020)] for the connections to dynamical systems and [Baake et al., 1997, loc. cit.] for the symmetry analysis).