The topology of tile invariants

DOI10.1216/RMJ-2015-45-2-539MaRDI QIDQ491335zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael P. Hitchman

Publication date 25 August 2015

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02315, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1434208486

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Tilings in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C20)

Abstract: In this note we use techniques in the topology of 2-complexes to recast some tools that have arisen in the study of planar tiling questions. With spherical pictures we show that the tile counting group associated to a set $T$ of tiles and a set of regions tileable by $T$ is isomorphic to a quotient of the second homology group of a 2-complex built from $T$. In this topological setting we derive some well-known tile invariants, one of which we apply to the solution of a tiling question involving modified rectangles.

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