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The Domino Problem of the Hyperbolic Plane Is Undecidable

Computational Geometry 2008-04-19 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

In this paper, we prove that the general tiling problem of the hyperbolic plane is undecidable by proving a slightly stronger version using only a regular polygon as the basic shape of the tiles. The problem was raised by a paper of Raphael Robinson in 1971, in his famous simplified proof that the general tiling problem is undecidable for the Euclidean plane, initially proved by Robert Berger in 1966.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0706.4161,
  title  = {The Domino Problem of the Hyperbolic Plane Is Undecidable},
  author = {Maurice Margenstern},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.4161},
  year   = {2008}
}
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