Combinatorial aspects of Escher Tilings

room 0.03
Tuesday, 17 November, 2009 - 16:00

When Maurits Cornelis Escher started to produce astonishing tesselations of the plane in the late 30's, very few properties were known about theses. The ``simplest" tesselations make use of just one polygon or tile for tiling the entire plane, and the polygons that tile the plane by translation are characterized by a simple property due to Beauquier and Nivat (1991) stating that the border $b(P)$ of such a polygon may be factorized as $b(P) = ABC\hat(A) \hat(B)\hat(C)$. This equation maybe naturally translated in an equation on words, that led to the discovery of new classes of polyominoes, connected to the Fibonacci sequence and the Pell sequence.

Speaker: 

Srecko Brlek (Université du Québec à Montréal )
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