Investigates unique tiling schemes in weight lattice projections, suggesting new quasicrystallographic designs.
The root lattice A n and its dual weight lattice A n * acquire remarkable quasicrystallographic significance through their projections onto the Coxeter plane, where ( n + 1)-fold symmetry emerges naturally. The primary objective of this work is to present a general technique for projection of the Voronoi tessellation of the weight lattice A n * and apply it for the lattice A 4 *. The projection of the Voronoi tessellation of the weight lattice A 4 * produces a totally different tiling scheme than the tiling obtained from the Voronoi cell projection of the lattice A 4 which leads to the Penrose tiling with thick and thin rhombuses. The Voronoi cell of the weight lattice A 4 * is a permutohedron of order 5, comprising 2D faces of regular hexagons and squares in 4D but which project into two types of hexagons and two types of rhombuses with edges of two lengths in proportion to the golden ratio. A detailed structure of the permutohedron with its 3D and 2D facets has been worked out. A centrally symmetric tessellation of the Coxeter plane exhibiting fivefold symmetry has been constructed using four distinct tile types.
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