Title
Structural aspects of tilings
Abstract
In this paper, we study the structure of the set of tilings produced by any given tile-set. For better understanding this structure, we address the set of finite patterns that each tiling contains. This set of patterns can be analyzed in two different contexts: the first one is combinatorial and the other topological. These two approaches have independent merits and, once combined, provide somehow surprising results. The particular case where the set of produced tilings is countable is deeply investigated while we prove that the uncountable case may have a completely different structure. We introduce a pattern preorder and also make use of Cantor-Bendixson rank. Our first main result is that a tile-set that produces only periodic tilings produces only a finite number of them. Our second main result exhibits a tiling with exactly one vector of periodicity in the countable case.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2008.1334
STACS 2008: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 25TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
tiling,domino,patterns,tiling preorder,tiling structure
Discrete mathematics,Rhombille tiling,Combinatorics,Substitution tiling,Finite set,Countable set,Uncountable set,Trihexagonal tiling,Arrangement of lines,Tessellation,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
abs/0802.2
Dans Proceedings of the 25th Annual Symposium on the Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science - STACS 2008, Bordeaux : France (2008)
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.09
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexis Ballier1254.01
Bruno Durand230840.42
Emmanuel Jeandel312320.06