A chiral aperiodic monotile
The recently discovered "hat" aperiodic monotile mixes unreflected and reflected tiles in every tiling it admits, leaving open the question of whether a single shape can tile aperiodically using translations and rotations alone. We show that a close relative of the hat--the equilateral member of the continuum to which it belongs--is a weakly chiral aperiodic monotile: it admits only non-periodic tilings if we forbid reflections by fiat. Furthermore, by modifying this polygon's edges we obtain a family of shapes called Spectres that are strictly chiral aperiodic monotiles: they admit only homochiral non-periodic tilings based on a hierarchical substitution system.Mathematics Subject Classifications: 05B45, 52C20, 05B50Keywords: Tilings, aperiodic order, polyforms
Authors
- David J. Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8810-4386)
- Joseph Samuel Myers
- Chaim Goodman-Strauss
- Craig S. Kaplan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3168-6805)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Combinatorial Theory
- Published
- 2024-09-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5070/c64264241
- Citations
- 36
- Primary Topic
- Quasicrystal Structures and Properties
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.51