Quasicrystals: Projections of 5-d Lattice into 2 and 3 Dimensions

Abstract

We show that generalized Penrose tilings can be obtained by the projection of a cut plane of a 5-dimensional lattice into two dimensions, while 3-d quasiperiodic lattices with overlapping unit cells are its projections into 3d. The frequencies of all possible vertex types in the generalized Penrose tilings, and the frequencies of all possible types of overlapping 3-d unit cells are also given here. The generalized Penrose tilings are found to be nonconvertable to kite and dart patterns, nor can they be described by the overlapping decagons of Gummelt.

arXiv commentLaTeX2e, 11 pages, 6 eps figures, 23rd International Conference of Differential Geometric Methods in Theoretical Physics, Nankai 2005