An aperiodic monotile
Craig S. Kaplan (University of Waterloo)
Abstract: A set of shapes is called aperiodic if the shapes admit tilings of the plane, but none that have translational symmetry. A longstanding open problem asks whether a set consisting of a single shape could be aperiodic; such a shape is known as an aperiodic monotile or sometimes an "einstein". The recently discovered "hat" monotile settles this problem in two dimensions. In this talk I provide necessary background on aperiodicity and related topics in tiling theory, review the history of the search for for an aperiodic monotile, and then discuss the hat and its mathematical properties.
dynamical systemsnumber theory
Audience: researchers in the topic
Series comments: Description: Online seminar on numeration systems and related topics
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