Two-dimensional groups, orbifolds and tilings

DOI10.1007/BF00150869MaRDI QIDQ1909591zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. Huson, Ludwig Balke

Publication date 5 December 1996

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00150869

zbMATH Keywords

Delaney-Dress symbolshyperbolic symmetry groupsorbifoldstilings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Tilings in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C20) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30)

Review text

This note is concerned with tilings in the three 2-dimensional complete simply-connected spaces of constant curvature, i.e. the Euclidean plane, the two-dimensional sphere and the hyperbolic plane. The authors consider the groups of isometries of these planes. Such a group with compact fundamental domain is called a symmetry group of finite orbit type. Let \(M\) be a compact 2-dimensional manifold and \(S\) an appropriate signature for \(M\). Then \((M,S)\) is called a 2-dimensional orbifold. Any symmetry group of finite orbit type defines an orbifold [cf. \textit{Eh. B. Vinberg}, Geometry II, Springer Berlin-Heidelberg (1993; Zbl 0643.00020)]. Now this paper summarizes and continues the results of the two authors presented some years ago [the first author, Diskontinuierliche Gruppen als Automorphismengruppen von Pflasterungen. Master's thesis. Univ. Bonn (1990; Zbl 0749.20024), the second author, Geom. Dedicata 47, No. 3, 269-296 (1993; Zbl 0787.52011)]. For the triangulation of a 2-dimensional orbifold in terms of the Delaney-Dress symbols of a periodic tiling, the authors discuss the computation of its orbifold symbols as defined by \textit{J. H. Conway} [Lond. Math. Soc., Lect. Note Ser. 165, 438-447 (1992; Zbl 0835.20048)]. Then their method is applied to obtain a refined classification of equivariant tilings for certain hyperbolic symmetry groups. These results are listed in two tables.

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