Planar coincidences for N-fold symmetry

DOI10.1063/1.531424MaRDI QIDQ5284428zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Baake, Johannes Roth, Peter A. B. Pleasants

Publication date 22 January 1997

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511147

zbMATH Keywords

\(N\)-fold symmetryalgebraic number fieldscoincidence problemcolour lattices in two dimensionscolour modulesplanar patternsprime factorization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry of numbers (11H99) Algebraic number theory: global fields (11R99) Other geometric groups, including crystallographic groups (20H15) Reflection groups, reflection geometries (51F15) Tilings in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C20) Quasicrystals and aperiodic tilings in discrete geometry (52C23) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25)

Abstract: The coincidence problem for planar patterns with $N$-fold symmetry is considered. For the N-fold symmetric module with $N<46$, all isometries of the plane are classified that result in coincidences of finite index. This is done by reformulating the problem in terms of algebraic number fields and using prime factorization. The more complicated case $Nge46$ is briefly discussed and N=46 is described explicitly. The results of the coincidence problem also solve the problem of colour lattices in two dimensions and its natural generalization to colour modules.

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