Symmetry properties of Penrose type tilings

DOI10.1080/14786430802035691arXiv0710.3845MaRDI QIDQ6207201FDOQ6207201

Authors: Nicolae Cotfas 

Publication date: 20 October 2007

Abstract: The Penrose tiling is directly related to the atomic structure of certain decagonal quasicrystals and, despite its aperiodicity, is highly symmetric. It is known that the numbers 1, $-au$, $(-au{)}^2$, $(-au{)}^3$, ..., where $au=(1+sqrt5)/2$, are scaling factors of the Penrose tiling. We show that the set of scaling factors is much larger, and for most of them the number of the corresponding inflation centers is infinite.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quasicrystals and aperiodic tilings in discrete geometry (52C23)

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