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We study decision problems on geometric tilings. First, we study a variant of the Domino problem where square tiles are replaced by geometric tiles of arbitrary shape. We show that this variant is undecidable regardless of the shapes,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Benjamin Hellouin de Menibus , Victor Lutfalla , Pascal Vanier

We extend the classical Domino problem to any tiling of rhombus-shaped tiles. For any subshift X of edge-to-edge rhombus tilings, such as the Penrose subshift, we prove that the associated X-Domino problem is $\Pi^0_1$ -hard and therefore…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Benjamin Hellouin de Menibus , Victor H. Lutfalla , Camille Noûs

The non-emptiness, called the Domino Problem, and the characterization of the possible entropies of $\mathbb{Z}^2$-subshifts of finite type are standard problems of symbolic dynamics. In this article we study these questions with horizontal…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Solène J. Esnay , Mathieu Sablik

Aperiodic tilings are non-periodic tilings characterized by local constraints. They play a key role in the proof of the undecidability of the domino problem (1964) and naturally model quasicrystals (discovered in 1982). A central question…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-04 Thomas Fernique , Mathieu Sablik

There is a rich history of domino tilings in two dimensions. Through a variety of techniques we can answer questions such as: how many tilings are there of a given region or what does the space of all tilings look like? These questions and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Caroline J. Klivans , Nicolau C. Saldanha

By reformulating Wang tiles with tensors, we propose a natural generalization to the probabilistic and quantum setting. In this new framework, we introduce notions of tilings and periodicity directly extending their classical counterparts.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Titouan Carette , Etienne Moutot

Aperiodic tiling --- a form of complex global geometric structure arising through locally checkable, constant-time matching rules --- has long been closely tied to a wide range of physical, information-theoretic, and foundational…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-21 Chaim Goodman-Strauss

Aperiodic tilings are non-periodic tilings defined by local rules. They are widely used to model quasicrystals, and a central question is to understand which of the non-periodic tilings are actually aperiodic. Among tilings, those by rhombi…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-09-24 Nicolas Bédaride , Thomas Fernique

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…

Tiling planar regions with dominoes is a classical problem in which the decision and counting problems are polynomial. We prove a variety of hardness results (both NP- and #P-completeness) for different generalizations of dominoes in three…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-10 Igor Pak , Jed Yang

Domino tilings have been studied extensively for both their statistical properties and their dynamical properties. We construct a subshift of finite type using matching rules for several types of dominos. We combine the previous results…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-01-04 Christopher Hoffman

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 every polycyclic group of nonlinear growth admits a strongly aperiodic SFT and has an undecidable domino problem. This answers a question of [4] and generalizes the result of [2].

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-08-22 Emmanuel Jeandel

We know that tilesets that can tile the plane always admit a quasi-periodic tiling [4, 8], yet they hold many uncomputable properties [3, 11, 21, 25]. The quasi-periodicity function is one way to measure the regularity of a quasi-periodic…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2010-12-07 Alexis Ballier , Emmanuel Jeandel

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

In this paper we consider domino tilings of bounded regions in dimension $n \geq 4$. We define the twist of such a tiling, an elements of ${\mathbb{Z}}/(2)$, and prove it is invariant under flips, a simple local move in the space of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Caroline Klivans , Nicolau C. Saldanha

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

An aperiodic tile set was first constructed by R. Berger while proving the undecidability of the domino problem. It turned out that aperiodic tile sets appear in many topics ranging from logic (the Entscheidungsproblem) to physics…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-12-05 Bruno Durand , Andrei Romashchenko , Alexander Shen

In this paper, we prove that the general problem of tiling the hyperbolic plane with \`a la Wang tiles is undecidable.

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-07-07 Maurice Margenstern

We consider tromino tilings of $m\times n$ domino-deficient rectangles, where $3|(mn-2)$ and $m,n\geq0$, and characterize all cases of domino removal that admit such tilings, thereby settling the open problem posed by J. M. Ash and S.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-08-13 Mridul Aanjaneya
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