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Tiling models are classical statistical models in which different geometric shapes, the tiles, are packed together such that they cover space completely. In this paper we discuss a class of two-dimensional tiling models in which the tiles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Bernard Nienhuis

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

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

In 1946 Fine and Niven posed problem E724, asking to demonstrate that every hypercube can be tiled by any number of hypercubic tiles larger than some value. This requires only basic number theory, but the problem of finding the smallest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Benjamin Prather

We present two novel six-colorings of the Euclidean plane that avoid monochromatic pairs of points at unit distance in five colors and monochromatic pairs at another specified distance $d$ in the sixth color. Such colorings have previously…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Konrad Mundinger , Sebastian Pokutta , Christoph Spiegel , Max Zimmer

A study of 7-fold tilings that use a set of three proto-rhombs in a substitution scheme to tile a large area. A set is discovered that is thought to be the most minimal or smallest one. The scheme uses 11 proto-rhombs to tile the next…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Theo P. Schaad

The first undecidability result on the tiling is the undecidability of translational tiling of the plane with Wang tiles, where there is an additional color matching requirement. Later, researchers obtained several undecidability results on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Chao Yang , Zhujun Zhang

The inclusion relation between simple objects in the plane may be used to define geometric set systems, or hypergraphs. Properties of various types of colorings of these hypergraphs have been the subject of recent investigations, with…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Jean Cardinal , Matias Korman

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

To study the fixed parameter undecidability of tiling problem for a set of Wang tiles, Jeandel and Rolin show that the tiling problem for a set of 44 Wang bars is undecidable. In this paper, we improve their result by proving that whether a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Chao Yang , Zhujun Zhang

A quasiperiodic 7-fold rhombic tiling is constructed with an iterative substitution scheme. The inflation factor is 5.04892..., the square of the longer diagonal of a regular heptagon. There are many substitutions possible that fill larger…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-12-02 Theo P. Schaad

Given a tiling of a 2D grid with several types of tiles, we can count for every row and column how many tiles of each type it intersects. These numbers are called the_projections_. We are interested in the problem of reconstructing a tiling…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-09-25 Marek Chrobak , Peter Couperus , Christoph Durr , Gerhard Woeginger

The combinatorics of tilings of a hexagon of integer side-length $n$ by 120 degree - 60 degree diamonds of side-length 1 has a long history, both directly (as a problem of interest in thermodynamic models) and indirectly (through the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Peter Taylor

Several articles deal with tilings with squares and dominoes on 2-dimensional boards, but only a few on boards in 3-dimensional space. We examine a tiling problem with colored cubes and bricks of $(2\times2\times n)$-board in three…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-01 László Németh

We derive a simple bijection between geometric plane perfect matchings on $2n$ points in convex position and triangulations on $n+2$ points in convex position. We then extend this bijection to monochromatic plane perfect matchings on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-16 Oswin Aichholzer , Lukas Andritsch , Karin Baur , Birgit Vogtenhuber

Keller's conjecture on cube tilings asserted that, in any tiling of $\mathbb{R}^d$ by unit cubes, there must exist two cubes that share a $(d-1)$-dimensional face. This is now known to be true in dimensions $d\leq 7$ and false for $d\geq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Benjamin Bruce , Izabella Laba

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

A dyadic tile of order n is any rectangle obtained from the unit square by n successive bisections by horizontal or vertical cuts. Let each dyadic tile of order n be available with probability p, independently of the others. We prove that…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-07-24 Omer Angel , Alexander E. Holroyd , Gady Kozma , Johan Wästlund , Peter Winkler

Conway and Lagarias showed that certain roughly triangular regions in the hexagonal grid cannot be tiled by shapes Thurston later dubbed tribones. Here we study a two-parameter family of roughly hexagonal regions in the hexagonal grid and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Jesse Kim , James Propp

Non-periodic tilings with Tile(1, 1) using the substitution method, as presented by Smith et al. in [2] and [3], can be converted into non-periodic tilings with three types of pentagons. When arbitrary replacements are excluded, the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Teruhisa Sugimoto