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Symmetry structures of tilings on a Klein bottle
Ma Louise Antonette De Las Peñas1, Mark Loyola1, Eduard Taganap2
1Department of Mathematics, Ateneo de Manila University, Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City, Metro Manila 1108, Philippines.
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This study presents a comprehensive characterization of the symmetry structures of tilings on a Klein bottle, arising from tilings of the Euclidean plane with crystallographic symmetry groups {\cal G} containing a subgroup {\cal L} of type pg. The investigation focuses on determining the isometries in the normalizer group {N_{\cal G}}\left({\cal L} \right) through diagrams of isometries, utilizing subgroup relationships among plane groups to streamline computations. A key result reveals that the quotient group {N_{\cal G}}\left({\cal L} \right)/{\cal L} can be decomposed as a product of cyclic and dihedral groups, with its order depending solely on the power of the generating translation of {\cal L} in the direction of the glide reflection axes.
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