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Matching Rules for a Three-Dimensional Strongly Aperiodic Monotile
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A recent pre-print [arXiv:2609.19214] proposed a three-dimensional (3D) strongly aperiodic monotile: a shape that tiles Euclidean space only non-periodically and which admits no symmetry of infinite order. The proof takes the 3D Chair tile identified previously by Lee and Moody, and adds geometric decorations to the faces so as to force non-periodicity (without these decorations The Chair also admits periodic tilings). Here we establish general requirements on face decorations to achieve the same end, in order to facilitate the search for physical realisations. We find that the requirements are minimal. We provide matching rules using three colours of arrow that are equivalent to the original rules, in that they force the same local and global configurations. These rules force Chairs to compose into `Superchairs' with doubled linear dimensions. In this process the matching rules themselves compose uniquely. We find that the same global structure can be forced using simpler rules based on the colours of squares, regardless of orientation. Any physical system encoding these rules (geometrically or otherwise) will force the same strongly aperiodic monotilings. We provide simple examples.
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