Penrose tilings, infinite friezes, and the $A_{\infty }$-singularity

Abstract

We study Penrose tilings of the plane ${\mathbb{R}}^2$ and nonperiodic infinite frieze patterns from the point of view of Cohen--Macaulay representation theory: Triangulations of the completed infinity-gon correspond to subcategories of the Frobenius category ${\mathcal{C}}_2={\mathrm{CM}}_{\mathbb{Z}}(\mathbb{C}[x,y]/(x^2))$, the singularity category of the curve singularity of type $A_{\infty }$. We relate Penrose tilings to certain triangulations of the completed infinity-gon, and thus to the corresponding subcategories of ${\mathcal{C}}_2$. We then extend the cluster character of Paquette and Yıldırım for a triangulated category modelling said triangulations to our setting. This allows us to define nonperiodic infinite friezes patterns coming from triangulations of the completed infinity-gon and in particular from Penrose tilings.

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