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Tiling Triangles with $2\pi/3$ Angles

Combinatorics 2026-04-07 v4

Abstract

Motivated by a question of Erd\"{o}s and inquiries by Beeson and Laczkovich, we explore the possible NN for which a triangle TT can tile into NN congruent copies of a triangle RR. The \emph{reptile} cases (where TT is similar to RR) and the \emph{commensurable-angles} cases (where all angles of RR are rational multiples of π\pi) are well-understood. We tackle the most interesting remaining case, which is when RR contains an angle of 2π/32\pi/3 and when TT is one of 66 ``sporadic'' specific triangles, of which only 22 were known to have constructions. For each of these, we create a family of constructions and conjecture that they are the only possible NN that occur for these triangles.

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@article{arxiv.2512.22696,
  title  = {Tiling Triangles with $2\pi/3$ Angles},
  author = {Yan X Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.22696},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

16 pages, 12 figures

R2 v1 2026-07-01T08:43:00.120Z