TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kolbe, Benedikt Maximilian
A1  - Evans, Myfanwy E.
T1  - Isotopic tiling theory for hyperbolic surfaces
JF  - Geometriae dedicata
N2  - In this paper, we develop the mathematical tools needed to explore isotopy classes of tilings on hyperbolic surfaces of finite genus, possibly nonorientable, with boundary, and punctured. More specifically, we generalize results on Delaney-Dress combinatorial tiling theory using an extension of mapping class groups to orbifolds, in turn using this to study tilings of covering spaces of orbifolds. Moreover, we study finite subgroups of these mapping class groups. Our results can be used to extend the Delaney-Dress combinatorial encoding of a tiling to yield a finite symbol encoding the complexity of an isotopy class of tilings. The results of this paper provide the basis for a complete and unambiguous enumeration of isotopically distinct tilings of hyperbolic surfaces.
KW  - isotopic tiling theory
KW  - delaney-dress tiling theory
KW  - mapping class
KW  - groups
KW  - orbifolds
KW  - maps on surfaces
KW  - hyperbolic tilings
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-020-00554-2
SN  - 0046-5755
SN  - 1572-9168
VL  - 212
IS  - 1
SP  - 177
EP  - 204
PB  - Springer
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  -