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We exhibit a weakly aperiodic tile set for Baumslag-Solitar groups, and prove that the domino problem is undecidable on these groups. A consequence of our construction is the existence of an arecursive tile set on Baumslag-Solitar groups.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-09-06 Nathalie Aubrun , Jarkko Kari

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

Translational tiling problems are among the most fundamental and representative undecidable problems in all fields of mathematics. Greenfeld and Tao obtained two remarkable results on the undecidability of translational tiling in recent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Chao Yang , Zhujun Zhang

We establish the undecidability of conditional affine information inequalities, the undecidability of the conditional independence implication problem with a constraint that one random variable is binary, and the undecidability of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Cheuk Ting Li

Altenbernd, Thomas and W\"ohrle have considered acceptance of languages of infinite two-dimensional words (infinite pictures) by finite tiling systems, with usual acceptance conditions, such as the B\"uchi and Muller ones [1]. It was proved…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-08-04 Olivier Finkel

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

We prove the undecidability of determining whether a Turing machine yields an eventually periodic trajectory. From this, we deduce the undecidability of orbit finiteness in the polynomial dynamical system on infinite tuples of integers.

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Gwangyong Gwon

In this article, we deal with propositional calculi over a signature containing the classical implication $\to$ with the rules of modus ponens and substitution. For these calculi we consider few recognizing problems such as recognizing…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-04-15 Grigoriy V. Bokov

We give a proof of Ollinger's conjecture that the problem of tiling the plane with translated copies of a set of $8$ polyominoes is undecidable. The techniques employed in our proof include a different orientation for simulating the Wang…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Chao Yang , Zhujun Zhang

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 show that, for every finitely generated group with decidable word problem and undecidable domino problem, there exists a sequence of effective subshifts whose inverse limit is not the topological factor of any effective dynamical system.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Sebastián Barbieri , Leo Poirier

We first prove that the set of domino tilings of a fixed finite figure is a distributive lattice, even in the case when the figure has holes. We then give a geometrical interpretation of the order given by this lattice, using (not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sebastien Desreux , Martin Matamala , Ivan Rapaport , Eric Remila

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

We study decidability and complexity questions related to a continuous analogue of the Skolem-Pisot problem concerning the zeros and nonnegativity of a linear recurrent sequence. In particular, we show that the continuous version of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-04-23 Paul Bell , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Raphael Jungers , Vincent D. Blondel

The purpose of this article is to study the algorithmic complexity of the Besicovitch stability of noisy subshifts of finite type, a notion studied in a previous article. First, we exhibit an unstable aperiodic tiling, and then see how it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Léo Gayral , Mathieu Sablik

Domino tileability is a classical problem in Discrete Geometry, famously solved by Thurston for simply connected regions in nearly linear time in the area. In this paper, we improve upon Thurston's height function approach to a nearly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-07 Igor Pak , Adam Sheffer , Martin Tassy

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

In this thesis we will present and discuss various results pertaining to tiling problems and mathematical logic, specifically computability theory. We focus on Wang prototiles, as defined in [32]. We begin by studying Domino Problems, and…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Mark Carney

As a continuation to our previous work [9, 10], we consider the domino tiling problem with impurities. (1) if we have more than two impurities on the boundary, we can compute the number of corresponding perfect matchings by using the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Fumihiko Nakano , Taizo Sadahiro

The 1-2-3 conjecture has been solved positively in 2024 for finite graphs and by extension for infinite graphs which are locally finite. The solution is non-constructive, and finding explicit solutions for large (or infinite) graphs is very…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Alison Charlesworth , Christopher Ramsey , Nicolae Strungaru