Mathematics – Differential Geometry
Scientific paper
1999-04-03
Mathematics
Differential Geometry
AMS-LaTeX, 43 pages, 3 eps figures
Scientific paper
The level set of an elliptic function is a doubly periodic point set in C. To obtain a wider spectrum of point sets, we consider, more generally, a Riemann surface S immersed in C^2 and its sections (``cuts'') by C. We give S a crystallographic isometry in C^2 by defining a fundamental surface element as a conformal map of triangular domains and S as its extension by reflections in the triangle edges. Our main result concerns the special case of maps of right triangles, with the right angle being a regular point of the map. For this class of maps we show that only seven Riemann surfaces, when cut, form point sets that are discrete in C. Their isometry groups all have a rank-four lattice subgroup, but only three of the corresponding point sets are doubly periodic in C. The remaining surfaces form quasiperiodic point sets closely related to the vertex sets of quasiperiodic tilings. In fact, vertex sets of familiar tilings are recovered in all cases by applying the construction to a piecewise flat approximation of the corresponding Riemann surface. The geometry of point sets formed by cuts of Riemann surfaces is no less ``rigid'' than the geometry determined by a tiling, and has the distinct advantage in having a regular behavior with respect to the complex parameter which specifies the cut.
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