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We study the intimate relationship between the Penrose and the Taylor-Socolar tilings, within both the context of double hexagon tiles and the algebraic context of hierarchical inverse sequences of triangular lattices. This unified approach…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-17 Jeong-Yup Lee , Robert V. Moody

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

In this paper it is proved that there exist periodic monohedral tilings and finite seeds of colored tiles, which force non-periodic coloring of the whole plane

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Giedrius Alkauskas

We introduce tessellation of the filled Julia sets for hyperbolic and parabolic quadratic maps. Then the dynamics inside their Julia sets are organized by tiles which work like external rays outside. We also construct continuous families of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-01-03 Tomoki Kawahira

In this document, we collected the most important complexity results of tilings. We also propose a definition of a so-called deterministic set of tile types, in order to capture deterministic classes without the notion of games. We also…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-08-22 François Schwarzentruber

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

The tonnetz, which is commonly represented as a tessellation of the plane by a triangular network of tones, can also be represented as a bipartite graph of degree three with twelve vertices denoting major triads and twelve vertices denoting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Jeffrey R. Boland , Lane P. Hughston

The hexagonal tiling honeycomb is a beautiful structure in 3-dimensional hyperbolic space. It is called {6,3,3} because each hexagon has 6 edges, 3 hexagons meet at each vertex in a Euclidean plane tiled by regular hexagons, and 3 such…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2024-12-03 John C. Baez

A map is a connected topological graph cellularly embedded in a surface and a complete map is a cellularly embedded complete graph in a surface. In this paper, all automorphisms of complete maps of order n are determined by permutations on…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Linfan Mao , Yanpei Liu , Feng Tian

A combinatorial substitution is a map over tilings which allows to define sets of tilings with a strong hierarchical structure. In this paper, we show that such sets of tilings are sofic, that is, can be enforced by finitely many local…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-10 Thomas Fernique , Nicolas Ollinger

In this paper we define an infinite family of triangular tilings of the hyperbolic plane defined by two parameters ranging in the natural nummbers and we give a uniform way to define coordinates for locating the triangles of the tiling.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Maurice Margenstern

We say that a triangle $T$ tiles a polygon $A$, if $A$ can be dissected into finitely many nonoverlapping triangles similar to $T$. We show that if $N>42$, then there are at most three nonsimilar triangles $T$ such that the angles of $T$…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-28 M. Laczkovich

On one hand, we study the class of graphs on surfaces, satisfying tessellation properties, with positive Forman curvature on each edge. Via medial graphs, we provide a new proof for the finiteness of the class, and give a complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Yohji Akama , Bobo Hua , Yanhui Su , Haohang Zhang

A bounded set $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ is called a spectral set if the space $L^2(\Omega)$ admits a complete orthogonal system of exponential functions. We prove that a cylindric set $\Omega$ is spectral if and only if its base is a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Rachel Greenfeld , Nir Lev

A tiling of a topological disc by topological discs is called monohedral if all tiles are congruent. Maltby (J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 66: 40-52, 1994) characterized the monohedral tilings of a square by three topological discs. Kurusa,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Bushra Basit , Zsolt Lángi

In the past three decades, the study of rhombus tilings and domino tilings of various plane regions has been a thriving subfield of enumerative combinatorics. Physicists classify such work as the study of dimer covers of finite graphs. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-19 James Propp

We give a complete classification of edge-to-edge tilings of the sphere by regular polygons under a unified framework. Without assuming convexity of the tiles or polyhedrality of the underlying graph, our proof is independent of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Hoi Ping Luk , Roman Nedela , Christopher Purcell

We consider incomplete tilings of the equilateral triangle of edge length n that is subdivided into n^2 regular equilateral smaller unit triangles. Pairs of the unit triangles that share a side may be converted into lozenges, leaving some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Richard J. Mathar

We count tilings of the $n \times m$ rectangular grid, cylinder, and torus with arbitrary tile sets up to arbitrary symmetries of the square and rectangle, along with cyclic shifting of rows and columns. This provides a unifying framework…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Peter Kagey , William Keehn

In contrast to many known results concerning periodic tilings of the Euclidean plane with pentagons, here tilings with rotational symmetry are investigated. A certain class of convex pentagons is introduced. It can be shown that for any…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Bernhard Klaassen