English

Dissecting a square into congruent polygons

Combinatorics 2023-06-22 v3

Abstract

We study the dissection of a square into congruent convex polygons. Yuan \emph{et al.} [Dissecting the square into five congruent parts, Discrete Math. \textbf{339} (2016) 288-298] asked whether, if the number of tiles is a prime number 3\geq 3, it is true that the tile must be a rectangle. We conjecture that the same conclusion still holds even if the number of tiles is an odd number 3\geq 3. Our conjecture has been confirmed for triangles in earlier works. We prove that the conjecture holds if either the tile is a convex qq-gon with q6q\geq 6 or it is a right-angle trapezoid.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2001.03289,
  title  = {Dissecting a square into congruent polygons},
  author = {Hui Rao and Lei Ren and Yang Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.03289},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

19 pages, 11 figure

R2 v1 2026-06-23T13:07:38.598Z