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The Symplectic Penrose Kite

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The purpose of this article is to view the Penrose kite from the perspective of symplectic geometry.

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata “G. Sansone”, Università di Firenze, Via S. Marta 3, 50139, Firenze, Italy

    Fiammetta Battaglia

  2. Dipartimento di Matematica “U. Dini”, Università di Firenze, Piazza Ghiberti 27, 50122, Firenze, Italy

    Elisa Prato

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Communicated by A. Connes

Research partially supported by MIUR (Geometria Differenziale e Analisi Globale, PRIN 2007).

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Battaglia, F., Prato, E. The Symplectic Penrose Kite. Commun. Math. Phys. 299, 577–601 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-010-1103-y

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