T-Tetrominos in Arithmetic Progression
Combinatorics
2024-02-05 v2
Abstract
A famous result of D. Walkup is that an rectangle may be tiled by T-tetrominos if and only if both and are multiples of 4. The "if" portion may be proved by tiling a block, and then copying that block to fill the rectangle; but, this leads to regular, periodic tilings. In this paper we investigate how much "order" must be present in every tiling of a rectangle by T-tetrominos, where we measure order by length of arithmetic progressions of tiles.
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@article{arxiv.2207.00533,
title = {T-Tetrominos in Arithmetic Progression},
author = {Emily Feller and Robert Hochberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.00533},
year = {2024}
}
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11 pages, 11 figures