Topology of tiling spaces
By: Lorenzo Sadun.
Series: University lecture series -- v. 46
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Providence, R.I
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9780821847275
Subjects: Tiling spaces; Aperiodic tilings; Topology; Tiling (Mathematics)
Description: "This book is an introduction to the topology of tiling spaces, with a target audience of graduate students who wish to learn about the interface of topology with aperiodic order. It isn't a comprehensive and cross-referenced tome about everything having to do with tilings, which would be too big, too hard to read, and far too hard to write! Rather, it is a review of the explosion of recent work on tiling spaces as inverse limits, on the cohomology of tiling spaces, on substitution tilings and the role of rotations, and on tilings that do not have finite local complexity. Powerful computational techniques have been developed, as have new ways of thinking about tiling spaces." "The text contains a generous supply of examples and exercises."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.