Tilings: Simulation and universality

  • Authors:
  • Gregory Lafitte;Michael Weiss

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire d'informatique fondamentale de marseille (lif), cnrs – aix-marseille université, 39 rue joliot-curie, f-13453 marseille cedex 13, france email: gregory.lafitte@lif.univ-mrs. ...;Laboratoire i3s, cnrs – université de nice sophia-antipolis, les algorithmes, bât. euclide b, 2000 route des lucioles, bp 121, f-06903 sophia antipolis cedex, france email: michael ...

  • Venue:
  • Mathematical Structures in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Wang tiles are unit-size squares with coloured edges. In this paper, we approach one aspect of the study of tiling computability: the quest for a universal tile set. Using a complex construction, based on Robinson's classical construction and its different modifications, we build a tile set (pronounced ayin) that almost always simulates any tile set. By way of Banach–Mazur games on tilings topological spaces, we prove that the set of -tilings that do not satisfy the universality condition is meagre in the set of -tilings.