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    Pentagons and rhombuses that can form rotationally symmetric tilings

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    In this study, various rotationally symmetric tilings that can be formed using pentagons that are related to rhombus are discussed. The pentagons can be convex or concave and can be degenerated into a trapezoid. If the pentagons are convex, they belong to the Type 2 family. Since the properties of pentagons correspond to those of rhombuses, the study also explains the correspondence between pentagons and various rhombic tilings.Comment: 50 pages, 42 figure

    Construction of the discrete hull for the combinatorics of a regular pentagonal tiling of the plane

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    The article 'A "regular" pentagonal tiling of the plane' by P. L. Bowers and K. Stephenson defines a conformal pentagonal tiling. This is a tiling of the plane with remarkable combinatorial and geometric properties. However, it doesn't have finite local complexity in any usual sense, and therefore we cannot study it with the usual tiling theory. The appeal of the tiling is that all the tiles are conformally regular pentagons. But conformal maps are not allowable under finite local complexity. On the other hand, the tiling can be described completely by its combinatorial data, which rather automatically has finite local complexity. In this paper we give a construction of the discrete hull just from the combinatorial data. The main result of this paper is that the discrete hull is a Cantor space

    Spherical Tiling by 12 Congruent Pentagons

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    The tilings of the 2-dimensional sphere by congruent triangles have been extensively studied, and the edge-to-edge tilings have been completely classified. However, not much is known about the tilings by other congruent polygons. In this paper, we classify the simplest case, which is the edge-to-edge tilings of the 2-dimensional sphere by 12 congruent pentagons. We find one major class allowing two independent continuous parameters and four classes of isolated examples. The classification is done by first separately classifying the combinatorial, edge length, and angle aspects, and then combining the respective classifications together.Comment: 53 pages, 40 figures, spherical geometr

    Rotationally symmetric tilings with convex pentagons belonging to both the Type 1 and Type 7

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    Rotationally symmetric tilings by a convex pentagonal tile belonging to both the Type 1 and Type 7 families are introduced. Among them are spiral tilings with two- and four-fold rotational symmetry. Those rotationally symmetric tilings are connected edge-to-edge and have no axis of reflection symmetry.Comment: 13 pages, 16 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2005.08470, arXiv:2005.1270
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