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Punctured intervals tile $\mathbb Z^3$

Combinatorics 2021-01-27 v2

Abstract

Extending the methods of Metrebian (2018), we prove that any symmetric punctured interval tiles Z3\mathbb Z^3. This solves two questions of Metrebian and completely resolves a question of Gruslys, Leader and Tan. We also pose a question that asks whether there is a relation between the genus gg (number of holes) in a one-dimensional tile TT and a uniform bound dd such that TT tiles Zd\mathbb{Z}^d. An affirmative answer would generalize a conjecture of Gruslys, Leader and Tan (2016).

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@article{arxiv.1808.05433,
  title  = {Punctured intervals tile $\mathbb Z^3$},
  author = {Stijn Cambie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.05433},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

8 pages, 7 figures. About the update: the main result is now proven more general, explaining the change in the title. Some further details on this change are added in a note

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