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Multiple coverings with closed polygons

Metric Geometry 2014-03-12 v1 Computational Geometry Combinatorics

Abstract

A planar set PP is said to be cover-decomposable if there is a constant k=k(P)k=k(P) such that every kk-fold covering of the plane with translates of PP can be decomposed into two coverings. It is known that open convex polygons are cover-decomposable. Here we show that closed, centrally symmetric convex polygons are also cover-decomposable. We also show that an infinite-fold covering of the plane with translates of PP can be decomposed into two infinite-fold coverings. Both results hold for coverings of any subset of the plane.

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@article{arxiv.1403.2653,
  title  = {Multiple coverings with closed polygons},
  author = {István Kovács and Géza Tóth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.2653},
  year   = {2014}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1009.4641 by other authors

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