K-theory of crossed products of tiling C^*-algebras by rotation groups

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Abstract: Let Omega be a tiling space and let G be the maximal group of rotations which fixes Omega. Then the cohomology of Omega and Omega/G are both invariants which give useful geometric information about the tilings in Omega. The noncommutative analog of the cohomology of Omega is the K-theory of a C*-algebra associated to Omega, and for translationally finite tilings of dimension 2 or less the K-theory is isomorphic to the direct sum of cohomology groups. In this paper we give a prescription for calculating the noncommutative analog of the cohomology of Omega/G, that is, the K-theory of the crossed product of the tiling C*-algebra by G. We also provide a table with some calculated K-groups for many common examples, including the Penrose and pinwheel tilings.


This article computes certain \(K\)-theory groups for tilings of the two-dimensional plane. The space of tilings of a certain shape always carries an action by the translation group, and may have further rotational symmetry, usually by some finite cyclic group. This article computes the \(K\)-theory of the crossed product of the tiling \(C^*\)-algebra by this finite group of rotations. After a general result for two-dimensional tilings, several examples are computed explicitly. The main result depends on special features of dimension two: the set of fixed-points is finite, and a certain boundary map in a long exact \(K\)-theory sequence vanishes automatically.



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