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R. Nandakumar asked whether there is a tiling of the plane by pairwise incongruent triangles of equal area and equal perimeter. Recently a negative answer was given by Kupavskii, Pach and Tardos. Still one may ask for weaker versions of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Dirk Frettlöh , Christian Richter

Nandakumar asked whether there is a tiling of the plane by pairwise non-congruent triangles of equal area and equal perimeter. Here a weaker result is obtained: there is a tiling of the plane by pairwise non-congruent triangles of equal…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-31 Dirk Frettlöh

There exist tilings of the plane with pairwise noncongruent triangles of equal area and bounded perimeter. Analogously, there exist tilings with triangles of equal perimeter, the areas of which are bounded from below by a positive constant.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-07 Andrey Kupavskii , János Pach , Gábor Tardos

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

We give a simple proof of T. Stehling's result, that in any normal tiling of the plane with convex polygons with number of sides not less than six, all tiles except the finite number are hexagons.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-07 Arseniy Akopyan

We show that there are no edge-to-edge tilings of the sphere by congruent pentagons beyond the minimal dodecahedron tiling, such that there is a tile with all vertices having degree 3 and the edge length combinations are three of the five…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-09 Ka Yue Cheuk , Ho Man Cheung , Min Yan

Motivated by a question of R.\ Nandakumar, we show that the Euclidean plane can be dissected into mutually incongruent convex quadrangles of the same area and the same perimeter. As a byproduct we obtain vertex-to-vertex dissections of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Dirk Frettlöh , Christian Richter

Since the thesis of K. Reinhardt in 1918, it is well known that there are exactly three types of convex hexagons that can tile the plane. However, the proof of the fact is far from being complete. We prove this fact, under an assumption…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Ze Zhu , Erxiao Wang , Min Yan

An irregular vertex in a tiling by polygons is a vertex of one tile and belongs to the interior of an edge of another tile. In this paper we show that for any integer $k\geq 3$, there exists a normal tiling of the Euclidean plane by convex…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Dirk Frettlöh , Alexey Glazyrin , Zsolt Lángi

We present an exhaustive search of all families of convex pentagons which tile the plane. This research shows that there are no more than the already 15 known families. In particular, this implies that there is no convex polygon which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Michael Rao

Every body knows that identical regular triangles or squares can tile the whole plane. Many people know that identical regular hexagons can tile the plane properly as well. In fact, even the bees know and use this fact! Is there any other…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Chuanming Zong

We study the problem of perfect tiling in the plane and exploring the possibility of tiling a rectangle using integral distinct squares. Assume a set of distinguishable squares (or equivalently a set of distinct natural numbers) is given,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Bahram Sadeghi Bigham , Mansoor Davoodi , Samaneh Mazaheri , Jalal Kheyrabadi

An equilateral triangle cannot be dissected into finitely many mutually incongruent equilateral triangles [Tutte 1948]. Therefore Tuza [Tuza 1991] asked for the largest number $s=s(n)$ such that there is a tiling of an equilateral triangle…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Christian Richter

The edge-to-edge tilings of the sphere by congruent polygons, where all edges are straight, have been completely classified. We classify the curvilinear version of the similar triangular tilings, where the edges may not be straight, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Keyi Jin , Linming Lu , Erxiao Wang , Lijuan Wu , Min Yan

We show that every tiling of a convex set in the Euclidean plane $\mathbb{R}^2$ by equilateral triangles of mutually different sizes contains arbitrarily small tiles. The proof is purely elementary up to the discussion of one family of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Christian Richter , Melchior Wirth

Let $\cal T$ be a tiling of the plane with equilateral triangles no two of which share a side. We prove that if the side lengths of the triangles are bounded from below by a positive constant, then $\cal T$ is periodic and it consists of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Janos Pach , Gabor Tardos

Convex hexagons that can tile the plane have been classified into three types. For the generic cases (not necessarily convex) of the three types and two other special cases, we classify tilings of the plane under the assumption that all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Xinlu Yu , Erxiao Wang , Min Yan

We develop the basic and new tools for classifying non-side-to-side tilings of the sphere by congruent triangles. Then we prove that, if the triangle has any irrational angle in degree, such tilings are: a sequence of 1-parameter families…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Wen Chen , Jinjin Liang , Erxiao Wang

Roughly, a conformal tiling of a Riemann surface is a tiling where each tile is a suitable conformal image of a Euclidean regular polygon. In 1997, Bowers and Stephenson constructed an edge-to-edge conformal tiling of the complex plane…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Mohith Raju Nagaraju

We present a simplified proof of a forty-year-old result concerning the tiling of the plane with equilateral convex polygons. Our approach is based on a theorem by M. Rao, who used an exhaustive computer search to confirm the completeness…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Bernhard Klaassen
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