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    Spatial chaos of Wang tiles with two symbols

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    This investigation completely classifies the spatial chaos problem in plane edge coloring (Wang tiles) with two symbols. For a set of Wang tiles B\mathcal{B}, spatial chaos occurs when the spatial entropy h(B)h(\mathcal{B}) is positive. B\mathcal{B} is called a minimal cycle generator if P(B)β‰ βˆ…\mathcal{P}(\mathcal{B})\neq\emptyset and P(Bβ€²)=βˆ…\mathcal{P}(\mathcal{B}')=\emptyset whenever Bβ€²β«‹B\mathcal{B}'\subsetneqq \mathcal{B}, where P(B)\mathcal{P}(\mathcal{B}) is the set of all periodic patterns on Z2\mathbb{Z}^{2} generated by B\mathcal{B}. Given a set of Wang tiles B\mathcal{B}, write B=C1βˆͺC2βˆͺβ‹―βˆͺCkβˆͺN\mathcal{B}=C_{1}\cup C_{2} \cup\cdots \cup C_{k} \cup N, where CjC_{j}, 1≀j≀k1\leq j\leq k, are minimal cycle generators and B\mathcal{B} contains no minimal cycle generator except those contained in C1βˆͺC2βˆͺβ‹―βˆͺCkC_{1}\cup C_{2} \cup\cdots \cup C_{k}. Then, the positivity of spatial entropy h(B)h(\mathcal{B}) is completely determined by C1βˆͺC2βˆͺβ‹―βˆͺCkC_{1}\cup C_{2} \cup\cdots \cup C_{k}. Furthermore, there are 39 equivalent classes of marginal positive-entropy (MPE) sets of Wang tiles and 18 equivalent classes of saturated zero-entropy (SZE) sets of Wang tiles. For a set of Wang tiles B\mathcal{B}, h(B)h(\mathcal{B}) is positive if and only if B\mathcal{B} contains an MPE set, and h(B)h(\mathcal{B}) is zero if and only if B\mathcal{B} is a subset of an SZE set
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