Orbits of Orbs: Sphere Packing Meets Penrose Tilings

DOI10.2307/4145214MaRDI QIDQ4469098zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Charles Radin

Publication date 14 June 2004

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/4145214

zbMATH Keywords

BergerPenrosesphere packingtilings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quasicrystals and aperiodic tilings in discrete geometry (52C23)

Review text

This article presents packing in Euclidean space of arbitrary dimension in terms of symmetry and links with aperiodic tilings, the Berger construction, Penrose tilings and the notion of density related with ergodic theory. The author investigates also packing in hyperbolic space.

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