Local Rules for Computable Planar Tilings

Thomas Fernique
(CNRS and Univ. Paris 13, France)
Mathieu Sablik
(LATP - Univ. Aix-Marseille, France)

Aperiodic tilings are non-periodic tilings characterized by local constraints. They play a key role in the proof of the undecidability of the domino problem (1964) and naturally model quasicrystals (discovered in 1982). A central question is to characterize, among a class of non-periodic tilings, the aperiodic ones. In this paper, we answer this question for the well-studied class of non-periodic tilings obtained by digitizing irrational vector spaces. Namely, we prove that such tilings are aperiodic if and only if the digitized vector spaces are computable.

In Enrico Formenti: Proceedings 18th international workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems and 3rd international symposium Journées Automates Cellulaires (AUTOMATA&JAC 2012), La Marana, Corsica, September 19-21, 2012, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 90, pp. 133–141.
Published: 13th August 2012.

ArXived at: https://dx.doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.90.11 bibtex PDF

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