Formal Languages for Quasicrystals

Juan García Escudero
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Juan García Escudero: Universidad de Oviedo, Departamento de Física

A chapter in Symmetries in Science IX, 1997, pp 139-152 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Rotational symmetries of order five or higher than six are not compatible with translations in the plane or in 3D space so they can not be found in ordinary crystals which are periodic. This fact is known as crystallographic restriction.

Keywords: Production Rule; Coxeter Group; Context Free Language; Input Tape; Pisot Number (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5921-4_10

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