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Symmetry Groups Associated With Tilings On A Flat Torus, Ma. Louise Antonette N. De Las Peñas, Mark L. Loyola, Grace M. Estrada, Eko Budi Santoso

Mathematics Faculty Publications

This work investigates symmetry and color symmetry properties of Kepler, Heesch and Laves tilings embedded on a flat torus and their geometric realizations as tilings on a round torus in Euclidean 3-space. The symmetry group of the tiling on the round torus is determined by analyzing relevant symmetries of the planar tiling that are transformed to axial symmetries of the three-dimensional tiling. The focus on studying tilings on a round torus is motivated by applications in the geometric modeling of nanotori and the determination of their symmetry groups.