Fixed Point and Aperiodic Tilings

  • Authors:
  • Bruno Durand;Andrei Romashchenko;Alexander Shen

  • Affiliations:
  • LIF, CNRS & Univ. de Provence, Marseille;LIP, ENS de Lyon & CNRS, and Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow;LIF, CNRS & Univ. de Provence, Marseille and Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow

  • Venue:
  • DLT '08 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Developments in Language Theory
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

An aperiodic tile set was first constructed by R. Berger while proving the undecidability of the domino problem. It turned out that aperiodic tile sets appear in many topics ranging from logic (the Entscheidungsproblem) to physics (quasicrystals)We present a new construction of an aperiodic tile set that is based on Kleene's fixed-point construction instead of geometric arguments. This construction is similar to J. von Neumann self-reproducing automata; similar ideas were also used by P. Gács in the context of error-correcting computations.The flexibility of this construction allows us to construct a "robust" aperiodic tile set that does not have periodic (or close to periodic) tilings even if we allow some (sparse enough) tiling errors. This property was not known for any of the existing aperiodic tile sets.