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Undecidability of translational monotilings

Combinatorics 2023-10-26 v2 Logic

Abstract

In the 60's, Berger famously showed that translational tilings of Z2\mathbb{Z}^2 with multiple tiles are algorithmically undecidable. Recently, Bhattacharya proved the decidability of translational monotilings (tilings by translations of a single tile) in Z2\mathbb{Z}^2. The decidability of translational monotilings in higher dimensions remained unsolved. In this paper, by combining our recently developed techniques with ideas introduced by Aanderaa and Lewis, we finally settle this problem, achieving the undecidability of translational monotilings of (periodic subsets of) virtually Z2\mathbb{Z}^2 spaces, namely, spaces of the form Z2×G0\mathbb{Z}^2\times G_0, where G0G_0 is a finite Abelian group. This also implies the undecidability of translational monotilings in Zd\mathbb{Z}^d, d3d\geq 3.

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@article{arxiv.2309.09504,
  title  = {Undecidability of translational monotilings},
  author = {Rachel Greenfeld and Terence Tao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.09504},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

44 pages, 10 figures, typos corrected