A classification of the periodic directions in the rational approximants of icosahedral quasicrystals
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This paper shows that there are three types of periodic directions in the rational approximants of an icosahedral quasicrystal weakly, planar and strongly periodic directions. The classifying criteria take into account the periodicity properties of these directions in the direct and
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