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Aperiodic monotiles: from geometry to groups

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In 2023, two striking, nearly simultaneous, mathematical discoveries have excited their respective communities, one by Greenfeld and Tao, the other (the Hat tile) by Smith, Myers, Kaplan and Goodman-Strauss, which can both be summed up as the following: there exists a single tile that tiles, but not periodically (sometimes dubbed the einstein problem). The two settings and the tools are quite different (as emphasized by their almost disjoint bibliographies): one in euclidean geometry, the other in group theory. Both are highly nontrivial: in the first case, one allows complex shapes; in the second one, also the space to tile may be complex.

We propose here a framework that embeds both of these problems. We illustrate our setting by transforming the Hat tile into a new aperiodic group monotile, and we describe its symmetries.

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hal-04706651 , version 1 (23-09-2024)

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Thierry Coulbois, Anahí Gajardo, Pierre Guillon, Victor Lutfalla. Aperiodic monotiles: from geometry to groups. 2024. ⟨hal-04706651⟩
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