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Di Francesco conjectured in 2021 that the number of domino tilings of a certain family of regions -- called Aztec triangles -- on the square lattice is given by a product formula reminiscent of the one giving the number of alternating sign…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Seok Hyun Byun , Mihai Ciucu

In their unpublished work, Jockusch and Propp showed that a 2-enumeration of antisymmetric monotone triangles is given by a simple product formula. On the other hand, the author proved that the same formula counts the domino tilings of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-21 Tri Lai

A classic result of Brooks, Smith, Stone and Tutte associates to any finite planar network with distinguished source and sink vertices, a tiling of a rectangle by smaller subrectangles whose aspect ratios are given by the conductances of…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Ilia Binder , David Pechersky

The tiling problem has been a famous problem that has appeared in many Mathematics problems. Many of its solutions are rooted in high-level Mathematics. Thus we hope to tackle this problem using more elementary Mathematics concepts. In this…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2021-08-23 Le Viet Hung , Tan Yiming , Huang Keyi , Jin Qingyang

Several articles deal with tilings with squares and dominoes of the well-known regular square mosaic in Euclidean plane, but not any with the hyperbolic regular square mosaics. In this article, we examine the tiling problem with colored…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-01 Takao Komatsu , László Németh , László Szalay

Given a periodic placement of copies of a tromino (either L or I), we prove co-RE-completeness (and hence undecidability) of deciding whether it can be completed to a plane tiling. By contrast, the problem becomes decidable if the initial…

We formulate and prove a variational principle (in the sense of thermodynamics) for random domino tilings, or equivalently for the dimer model on a square grid. This principle states that a typical tiling of an arbitrary finite region can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-15 Henry Cohn , Richard Kenyon , James Propp

Given a finite collection of two-dimensional tile types, the field of study concerned with covering the plane with tiles of these types exclusively has a long history, having enjoyed great prominence in the last six to seven decades. Much…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-24 Eduardo J. Aguilar , Valmir C. Barbosa , Raul Donangelo , Sergio R. Souza

We count tilings of the $n \times m$ rectangular grid, cylinder, and torus with arbitrary tile sets up to arbitrary symmetries of the square and rectangle, along with cyclic shifting of rows and columns. This provides a unifying framework…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Peter Kagey , William Keehn

We consider a problem concerning tilings of rectangular regions by a finite library of polyominoes. We specifically look at rectangular regions of dimension $n\times m$ and ask whether or not a tiling of this region can be rearranged so…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-20 Jacob Turner

In this paper we study colorings (or tilings) of the two-dimensional grid $\mathbb{Z}^2$. A coloring is said to be valid with respect to a set $P$ of $n\times m$ rectangular patterns if all $n\times m$ sub-patterns of the coloring are in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Jarkko Kari , Etienne Moutot

The number of complete tilings of m X n floors for tiles of shape 1 X 2, 1 X 3, 1 X 4 and 2 X 3 is computed numerically for floors up to width m=9 and variable floor lengths n. Counts are obtained for two classes, for fixed tile stack…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Richard J. Mathar

We show that for any closed, orientable surface $K$ smoothly embedded in $\mathbb{R}^4$, the unit $4$-ball $B^4 \subset \mathbb{R}^4$ can be tiled using $n \geq 3$ tiles each congruent to a regular neighborhood (with corners) of a surface…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-15 James Ross , Hannah Schwartz , Andrew Ye

We provide a proof of the Alpern multi-tower theorem for Z^d actions. We reformulate the theorem as a problem of measurably tiling orbits of a Z^d action by a collection of rectangles whose corresponding sides have no non-trivial common…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-01-21 Ayse A. Sahin

We establish a lower bound on the forcing numbers of domino tilings computable in polynomial time based on height functions. This lower bound is sharp for a 2n by 2n square as well as other cases.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Fateh Aliyev , Nikita Gladkov

We discuss how to construct limit shapes for the domino tiling model (square lattice dimer model) and $5$-vertex model, in appropriate polygonal domains. Our methods are based on the harmonic extension method of [R. Kenyon and I. Prause,…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Richard Kenyon , István Prause

We examine emergent properties of 2D supramolecular networks, using enumeration of configurations formed by interacting dominoes on square lattices as a simple model system. Possible ground states are identified using a convex hull…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-08 Joel Nicholls , Gareth P. Alexander , David Quigley

Consider the $2n$-by-$2n$ matrix $M=(m_{i,j})_{i,j=1}^{2n}$ with $m_{i,j} = 1$ for $i,j$ satisfying $|2i-2n-1|+|2j-2n-1| \leq 2n$ and $m_{i,j} = 0$ for all other $i,j$, consisting of a central diamond of 1's surrounded by 0's. When $n \geq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 James Propp

We provide a definitive classification of all finite sets of regular polygons that admit a tiling of the hyperbolic plane, thereby establishing the decidability of the Domino Problem for this class of prototiles. We show that admissibility…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Arun Maiti

We prove that the following problem is co-RE-complete and thus undecidable: given three simple polygons, is there a tiling of the plane where every tile is an isometry of one of the three polygons (either allowing or forbidding…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Erik D. Demaine , Stefan Langerman