Planar coincidences for N-fold symmetry

DOI10.1063/1.531424zbMATH Open1015.11507arXivmath/0511147OpenAlexW2082231489MaRDI QIDQ5284428FDOQ5284428

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

Publication date: 22 January 1997

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

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.

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

zbMATH Keywords

prime factorizationcoincidence problemalgebraic number fieldsplanar patterns\(N\)-fold symmetrycolour lattices in two dimensionscolour modules

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25) Geometry of numbers (11H99) 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) Algebraic number theory: global fields (11R99)

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• O-LATTICES FOR RANK-DEFICIENT DISPLACEMENT FIELD MATRICES
• Structure of coincidence isometry groups
• Algebraic Solution of the Coincidence Problem in Two and Three Dimensions
• The coincidence site lattices in 2D hexagonal lattices using Clifford algebra

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