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Tiling with punctured intervals

Combinatorics 2019-02-20 v1

Abstract

It was shown by Gruslys, Leader and Tan that any finite subset of Zn\mathbb{Z}^n tiles Zd\mathbb{Z}^d for some dd. The first non-trivial case is the punctured interval, which consists of the interval {k,,k}Z\{-k,\ldots,k\} \subset \mathbb{Z} with its middle point removed: they showed that this tiles Zd\mathbb{Z}^d for d=2k2d = 2k^2, and they asked if the dimension needed tends to infinity with kk. In this note we answer this question: we show that, perhaps surprisingly, every punctured interval tiles Z4\mathbb{Z}^4.

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@article{arxiv.1805.03259,
  title  = {Tiling with punctured intervals},
  author = {Harry Metrebian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.03259},
  year   = {2019}
}

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7 pages

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