arXiv research

Study on tilings of the plane with two types of tiles of varying areas.

The study proves that in normal tilings, at least two vertices are required per cell.

This note connects tiling billiards dynamics to Novikov's problem via helicoidal construction.

Given a tiling $\mathcal{T}$ of the plane by straight edge polygons, which is invariant by two independent translations, we construct a family of embedded triply periodic minimal surfaces which desingularizes $\mathcal{T}\times\mathbb{R}$. For this purpose, inspired by the work of Martin Traizet, we open the nodes of s…

Paper constructs motifs from planar tilings for DP weaves and polycatenanes.

We determine the topology of the moduli space of periodic tilings of the plane by parallelograms. To each such tiling, we associate combinatorial data via the zone curves of the tiling. We show that all tilings with the same combinatorial data form an open subset in a suitable Euclidean space that is homotopy equivalen…

We present a technique for the enumeration of all isotopically distinct ways of tiling a hyperbolic surface of finite genus, possibly nonorientable and with punctures and boundary. This provides a generalization of the enumeration of Delaney-Dress combinatorial tiling theory on the basis of isotopic tiling theory. To a…

Algorithm finds periodic points on Veech surfaces.

Algorithm constructs and classifies weaving diagrams using combinatorial methods.

The straight-line flow on almost every staircase and on almost every square tiled staircase is recurrent. For almost every square tiled staircase the set of periodic orbits is dense in the phase space.

Hexagonal tilings minimize perimeter with unequal volumes.

We study the one parameter family of genus 2 Riemann surfaces defined by the orbit of the L-shaped translation surface tiled by three squares under the Teichmüller geodesic flow. These surfaces are real algebraic curves with three real components. We are interested in describing these surfaces by their period matrices.…

We develop a recursive formula for counting the number of rectangulations of a square, i.e the number of combinatorially distinct tilings of a square by rectangles. Our formula specializes to give a formula counting generic rectangulations, as analyzed by Reading in [5]. Our computations agree with [5] as far as was ca…

Soft cells fill space without gaps, derived from minimal surfaces and deformed using edge bending.

In this paper, we study two classes of planar self-similar fractals $T_\varepsilon$ with a shifting parameter $\varepsilon$. The first one is a class of self-similar tiles by shifting $x$-coordinates of some digits. We give a detailed discussion on the disk-likeness ({\it i.e., the property of being a topological disk}…

The level set of an elliptic function is a doubly periodic point set in C. To obtain a wider spectrum of point sets, we consider, more generally, a Riemann surface S immersed in C^2 and its sections (``cuts'') by C. We give S a crystallographic isometry in C^2 by defining a fundamental surface element as a conformal ma…

Suppose that f and g are Markov surjections, each defined on a wedge of circles, each fixing the branch point and having the branch point as the only critical value. We show that if the points in the inverse limit spaces associated with f and g corresponding to the branch point are distinguished then these inverse limi…

We add two new 1-parameter families to the short list of known embedded triply periodic minimal surfaces of genus 4 in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Both surfaces can be tiled by minimal pentagons with two straight segments and three planar symmetry curves as boundary. In one case (which has the appearance of the CLP surface of Schw…

This note characterizes monohedral tilings of regular polygons with up to three tiles.

The study of tiling homology on flat surfaces, proving impossibility of certain tilings.

New tiles allow efficient knot mosaics for small knots.

Rep-tiles fill cubes in any dimension.

Study tiling spaces over irrational tori using diffeological classification.

Shellable tilings on simplicial complexes help understand their structure.

In this article we study Ammann tilings from the perspective of symplectic geometry. Ammann tilings are nonperiodic tilings that are related to quasicrystals with icosahedral symmetry. We associate to each Ammann tiling two explicitly constructed highly singular symplectic spaces and we show that they are diffeomorphic…

The study classifies tilings of the sphere by congruent quadrilaterals.

New method constructs tilings of the plane using directed edges and alignments.

New tile types for knots and links reduce complexity.

New spectral sequences derived from shellable tilings.

The main goal of this paper is to define a 1-1 correspondence between between substitution tilings constructed by inflation and the arithmetic of positional representation in the underlying real vector space. It introduces a generalization of inflationary tessellations to equivalence classes of tiles. Two tiles belong …

We study square-tiled tori, that is, tori obtained from a finite collection of unit squares by parallel side identifications. Square-tiled tori can be parametrized in a natural way that allows to count the number of square-tiled tori tiled by a given number of square tiles. There is a natural $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbf{Z})…

Softens tilings in 3D space, proving conjectures about polyhedral tilings.

Paper proves corner connection tiles can represent knots with fewer tiles.

This paper classifies all 3D rep-tiles up to homeomorphism.

In this note we prove that any monohedral tiling of the closed circular unit disc with $k \leq 3$ topological discs as tiles has a $k$-fold rotational symmetry. This result yields the first nontrivial estimate about the minimum number of tiles in a monohedral tiling of the circular disc in which not all tiles contain t…

Knot mosaic theory was introduced by Lomonaco and Kauffman in the paper on `Quantum knots and mosaics' to give a precise and workable definition of quantum knots, intended to represent an actual physical quantum system. A knot (m,n)-mosaic is an $m \! \times \! n$ matrix whose entries are eleven mosaic tiles, represent…

4-ball can be tiled with knotted surfaces.

We describe a method to classify crystallographic tilings of the Euclidean and hyperbolic planes by tiles whose stabiliser group contains translation isometries or whose topology is not that of a closed disk. We tackle this problem from two different viewpoints, one with constructive techniques to enumerate such tiling…

The study explores maps of 2- and 3-uniform tilings on the torus.

Study higher rank inner products and their tilings to describe tori degenerations.

In this paper we describe the pentagonal tiling of the plane defined in the article "A regular pentagonal tiling of the plane" by P. L. Bowers and K. Stephenson as a conformal substitution tiling and summarize many of its properties given in the mentioned article. We show furthermore why such tiling is not FLC with res…

In this paper, we develop the mathematical tools needed to explore isotopy classes of tilings on hyperbolic surfaces of finite genus, possibly nonorientable, with boundary, and punctured. More specifically, we generalize results on Delaney-Dress combinatorial tiling theory using an extension of mapping class groups to …

In this paper we consider Monge-Ampère equations on compact Hessian manifolds, or equivalently Monge-Ampère equations on certain unbounded convex domains $Ω\subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$, with a periodicity constraint given by the action of an affine group. In the case where the affine group action is volume-preserving, i.e.,…

The paper explores different perspectives on rhombile tilings.

Shear moves connect square-tiled surfaces in quadratic differentials.

The study finds arithmetic groups often in square-tiled surface monodromies.

Expanding on prime knots with 6 or less mosaic tiles, this paper analyzes those with 7 tiles.

Extremal length is a conformal invariant that transfers naturally to the discrete setting, giving square tilings as a natural combinatorial analog of conformal mappings. Recent work by S. Hersonsky has explored generalizing these ideas to three-dimensional cube tilings. The connections between discrete extremal length …