Tangency properties of a pentagonal tiling generated by a piecewise isometry

Chaos. 2007 Dec;17(4):043129. doi: 10.1063/1.2825291.

Abstract

Piecewise isometries (PWIs) are known to have dynamical properties that generate interesting geometric planar packings. We analyze a particular PWI introduced by Goetz that generates a packing by periodically coded cells, each of which is a pentagon. Our main result is that the tangency graph associated with this packing is a forest (i.e., has no nontrivial cycles). We show, however, that this is not a general property of PWIs by giving an example that has an infinite number of cycles in the tangency graph of its periodically coded cells.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Computer Simulation
  • Mathematics
  • Models, Biological
  • Models, Genetic
  • Models, Statistical
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Neural Networks, Computer
  • Nonlinear Dynamics*