Tiling the Torus and Other Space Forms.
Suppose has a 2-dimensional expanding subspace , satisfies a regularity condition, called “good star”, and has , where is an oriented compound of . A morphism of the free group on is called a non-abelianization of if it has structure matrix . We show that there is a tiling substitution whose “boundary substitution” is a non-abelianization of . Such a tiling substitution leads to a self-affine tiling of with as its expansion. In the last section we find conditions on so...
Call a polygon rational if every pair of side lengths has rational ratio. We show that a convex polygon can be tiled with rational polygons if and only if it is itself rational. Furthermore we give a necessary condition for an arbitrary polygon to be tileable with rational polygons: we associate to any polygon a quadratic form , which must be positive semidefinite if is tileable with rational polygons.The above results also hold replacing the rationality condition with the following: a polygon...
Cet article étudie, sur l’ensemble des points extrémaux d’un convexe compact , des topologies faciales dont les fermés sont les traces de faces “parallélisables” (il existe une plus grande face disjointe de , et tout de s’écrit , avec unique). Les topologies faciales uniformisables sont en bijection avec les sous-espaces réticulés fermés et contenant 1 de l’espace des fonctions affines continues sur . Ceci redonne des résultats classiques sur les simplexes, et permet une étude...
Continuing earlier work by Székelyhidi, we describe the topological and geometric structure of so-called T4-configurations which are the most prominent examples of nontrivial rank-one convex hulls. It turns out that the structure of T4-configurations in is very rich; in particular, their collection is open as a subset of . Moreover a previously purely algebraic criterion is given a geometric interpretation. As a consequence, we sketch an improved algorithm to detect T4-configurations. ...
This work contains an extended version of a course given in Arrangements in Pyrénées. School on hyperplane arrangements and related topics held at Pau (France) in June 2012. In the first part, we recall the computation of the fundamental group of the complement of a line arrangement. In the second part, we deal with characteristic varieties of line arrangements focusing on two aspects: the relationship with the position of the singular points (relative to projective curves of some prescribed degrees)...