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Lozenge Tilings Of the Equilateral Triangle

Combinatorics 2020-07-28 v2

Abstract

We consider incomplete tilings of the equilateral triangle of edge length n that is subdivided into n^2 regular equilateral smaller unit triangles. Pairs of the unit triangles that share a side may be converted into lozenges, leaving some subset of the unit triangles untouched. We count numerically these coverings by lozenges and unit triangles for edge lengths n <= 6: the total and the detailed refinement as a function of the number of lozenges.

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@article{arxiv.1909.06336,
  title  = {Lozenge Tilings Of the Equilateral Triangle},
  author = {Richard J. Mathar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.06336},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Version 2 includes a derivation/proof of the formula for sets with 4 lozenges