English

Bounded lattice tiles that pack with another lattice

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2025-09-25 v2

Abstract

Suppose L and M are full-rank lattices in Euclidean space, such that vol(L) < vol(M). Answering a question of Han and Wang from 2001, we show how to construct a bounded measurable set F (we can even take F to be a finite union of polytopes) such that F+L is a tiling and F+M is a packing. If we do not require measurability of F it is often possible that a set F can be found tiling with both L and M even when L and M have different volumes, for instance if their intersection is trivial. We also show here that such a set can never be bounded if L and M have different volumes.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2508.07972,
  title  = {Bounded lattice tiles that pack with another lattice},
  author = {Sigrid Grepstad and Mihail N. Kolountzakis and Emmanuil Spyridakis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.07972},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

13 pages, 2 figures; 1 figure corrected in v2

R2 v1 2026-07-01T04:44:18.297Z