Tilings robust to errors

  • Authors:
  • Alexis Ballier;Bruno Durand;Emmanuel Jeandel

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire d’informatique fondamentale de Marseille (LIF), Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Marseille Cedex 13, France;Laboratoire d’informatique fondamentale de Marseille (LIF), Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Marseille Cedex 13, France;Laboratoire d’informatique fondamentale de Marseille (LIF), Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Marseille Cedex 13, France

  • Venue:
  • LATIN'10 Proceedings of the 9th Latin American conference on Theoretical Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We study the error robustness of tilings of the plane. The fundamental question is the following: given a tileset, what happens if we allow a small probability of errors? Are the objects we obtain close to an error-free tiling of the plane? We prove that tilesets that produce only periodic tilings are robust to errors. For this proof, we use a hierarchical construction of islands of errors (see [6,7]). We also show that another class of tilesets, those that admit countably many tilings is not robust and that there is no computable way to distinguish between these two classes.