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Tiling of regular polygon with similar right triangles

Combinatorics 2021-02-23 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

A tiling is a decomposition of a polygon into finitely many non-overlapping triangles. We prove that if a regular n-gon, n5n \geq 5, n28n \neq 28, can be tiled with similar right triangles, then one of the angles of these triangles is in {πn,2πn,π6+2π3n}\left\{\frac{\pi}{n},\frac{2\pi}{n}, \frac{\pi} {6}+\frac{2\pi}{3n}\right\}. Some related results were previously obtained by M.Laczkovich and B. Szegedy.

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@article{arxiv.2010.05052,
  title  = {Tiling of regular polygon with similar right triangles},
  author = {Ivan Vasenov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.05052},
  year   = {2021}
}
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