Deceptions in Quasicrystal Growth
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چکیده
We discuss a new general phenomenon pertaining to tiling models of quasicrystal growth. It is known that with Penrose tiles no (de-terministic) local matching rules exist which guarantee defect-free tiling for regions of arbitrary large size. We prove that this property holds quite generally: namely, that the emergence of defects in quasicrystal growth is unavoidable for all aperiodic tiling models in the plane with local matching rules, and for many models in R 3 satisfying certain conditions.
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