Aperiodicity, rotational tiling spaces and topological space groups

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DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2021.107855zbMATH Open1481.37019arXiv1806.00670OpenAlexW2908930099MaRDI QIDQ2042011FDOQ2042011

John Hunton, James J. Walton

Publication date: 26 July 2021

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the rotational structures of aperiodic tilings in Euclidean space of arbitrary dimension using topological methods. Classical topological approaches to the study of aperiodic patterns have largely concentrated just on translational structures, studying an associated space, the continuous hull, here denoted Omegat. In this article we consider two further spaces Omegar and OmegaG (the rotational hulls) which capture the full rigid motion properties of the underlying patterns. The rotational hull Omegar is shown to be a matchbox manifold which contains Omegat as a sub-matchbox manifold. We develop new S-MLD invariants derived from the homotopical and cohomological properties of these spaces demonstrating their computational as well as theoretical utility. We compute these invariants for a variety of examples, including a class of 3-dimensional aperiodic patterns, as well as for the space of periodic tessellations of mathbbR3 by unit cubes. We show that the classical space group of symmetries of a periodic pattern may be recovered as the fundamental group of our space OmegaG. Similarly, for those patterns associated to quasicrystals, the crystallographers' aperiodic space group may be recovered as a quotient of our fundamental invariant.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.00670




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