Thurston's modified conjecture on horospherical sections of the {3,5,3} honeycomb

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Take the {3,5,3}\{3,5,3\} honeycomb in H⁡3\operatorname{\mathbb{H}}^3 and cut it along a horosphere. Consider the union of all icosahedra interior to, or intersecting, the horosphere; this defines a patch SiS_i of the {3,5,3}\{3,5,3\} honeycomb in H⁡3\operatorname{\mathbb{H}}^3 with infinite boundary ∂Si\partial S_i. Thurston's modified conjecture. This boundary ∂Si\partial S_i is equivalent to, or seeds the growth of, a Penrose tiling. The exact meaning of equivalence and the proposed construction are not made precise, and it is unclear whether this is merely a rephrasing of Thurston's rough conjecture or an essential change.

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Latham Boyle and Justin Kulp, “Holographic Foliations: Self-Similar Quasicrystals from Hyperbolic Honeycombs”, arXiv:2408.15316 (2025).

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