Undecidability of translational monotilings
Combinatorics
2023-10-26 v2 Logic
Abstract
In the 60's, Berger famously showed that translational tilings of with multiple tiles are algorithmically undecidable. Recently, Bhattacharya proved the decidability of translational monotilings (tilings by translations of a single tile) in . 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 spaces, namely, spaces of the form , where is a finite Abelian group. This also implies the undecidability of translational monotilings in , .
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Cite
@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