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We study multiple tilings of 3-dimensional Euclidean space by a convex body. In a multiple tiling, a convex body $P$ is translated with a discrete multiset $\Lambda$ in such a way that each point of the space gets covered exactly $k$ times,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-08-09 Nick Gravin , Mihail Kolountzakis , Sinai Robins , Dmitry Shiryaev

A survey of tilings in the plane for a general audience.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Federico Ardila , Richard P. Stanley

In 1885, Fedorov discovered that a convex domain can form a lattice tiling of the Euclidean plane if and only if it is a parallelogram or a centrally symmetric hexagon. This paper proves the following results: Besides parallelograms and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Qi Yang , Chuanming Zong

We show that the following problem is undecidable: given two polygonal prototiles, determine whether the plane can be tiled with rotated and translated copies of them. This improves a result of Demaine and Langerman [SoCG 2025], who showed…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Jack Stade

This paper proves the following results: Besides parallelograms and centrally symmetric hexagons, there is no other convex domain which can form a two-, three- or four-fold lattice tiling in the Euclidean plane. If a centrally symmetric…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-13 Qi Yang , Chuanming Zong

Let S be a bounded, Riemann measurable set in R^d, and L be a lattice. By a theorem of Fuglede, if S tiles R^d with translation set L, then S has an orthogonal basis of exponentials. We show that, under the more general condition that S…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-11-21 Sigrid Grepstad , Nir Lev

A 2-uniform tiling is an edge-to-edge tiling by regular polygons having $2$ distinct transitivity classes of vertices. There are 20 distinct 2-uniform tilings (these are of $14$ different types) on the plane, and since the plane is the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Dipendu Maity , Debashis Bhowmik , Marbarisha M. Kharkongor

The notion of multidimensional quadrilateral lattice is introduced. It is shown that such a lattice is characterized by a system of integrable discrete nonlinear equations. Different useful formulations of the system are given. The…

solv-int · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Doliwa , P. M. Santini

This article examines the tilings of a strip with equilateral triangles. The number of ways in which the lattices can be covered with a combination of tiles of the two types of triangles is related to Pell's numbers. Additionally, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Valcho Milchev

This paper characterizes all the convex domains which can form six-fold lattice tilings of the Euclidean plane. They are parallelograms, centrally symmetric hexagons, one type of centrally symmetric octagons and two types of decagons.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-17 Chuanming Zong

The translational tiling problem, dated back to Wang's domino problem in the 1960s, is one of the most representative undecidable problems in the field of discrete geometry and combinatorics. Ollinger initiated the study of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Chao Yang , Zhujun Zhang

This paper is concerned with configurations of points in a plane lattice which determine angles that are rational multiples of $\pi$. We shall study how many such angles may appear in a given lattice and in which positions, allowing the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Roberto Dvornicich , Francesco Veneziano , Umberto Zannier

The problem of classifying the convex pentagons that admit tilings of the plane is a long-standing unsolved problem. Previous to this article, there were 14 known distinct kinds of convex pentagons that admit tilings of the plane. Five of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Casey Mann , Jennifer McLoud-Mann , David Von Derau

The present article studies combinatorial tilings of Euclidean or spherical spaces by polytopes, serving two main purposes: first, to survey some of the main developments in combinatorial space tiling; and second, to highlight some new and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2010-05-24 Egon Schulte

In this paper we describe the pentagonal tiling of the plane defined in the article "A regular pentagonal tiling of the plane" by P. L. Bowers and K. Stephenson as a conformal substitution tiling and summarize many of its properties given…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-03-11 Maria Ramirez-Solano

This paper is a continuation of an earlier one, and completes a classification of the configurations of points in a plane lattice that determine angles that are rational multiples of ${\pi}$. We give a complete and explicit description of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Roberto Dvornicich , Davide Lombardo , Francesco Veneziano , Umberto Zannier

Multi-plane light conversion (MPLC) has recently been developed as a versatile tool for manipulating spatial distributions of the optical field through repeated phase modulations. An MPLC Device consists of a series of phase masks separated…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-09 Yuanhang Zhang , Nicolas K. Fontaine

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

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

This is a survey about tiling by translation only and related questions and methods, especially those that have to do with Fourier Analysis.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-21 Mihail N. Kolountzakis , Mate Matolcsi