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Deciding if a given set of Wang tiles admits a tiling of the plane is decidable if the number of Wang tiles (or the number of colors) is bounded, for a trivial reason, as there are only finitely many such tilesets. We prove however that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Emmanuel Jeandel , Nicolas Rolin

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

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

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

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

In this paper, we complete the construction of paper arXiv:cs.CG/0701096v2. Together with the proof contained in arXiv:cs.CG/0701096v2, this paper definitely proves that the general problem of tiling the hyperbolic plane with {\it \`a la}…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-07-06 Maurice Margenstern

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

In this paper, we give a proof that it is undecidable whether a set of five polyominoes can tile the plane by translation. The proof involves a new method of labeling the edges of polyominoes, making it possible to assign whether two edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Yoonhu Kim

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

This investigation studies the decidability problem of plane edge coloring with three symbols. In the edge coloring (or Wang tiles) of a plane, unit squares with colored edges that have one of $p$ colors are arranged side by side such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-26 Hung-Hsun Chen , Wen-Guei Hu , De-Jan Lai , Song-Sun Lin

Does a given a set of polyominoes tile some rectangle? We show that this problem is undecidable. In a different direction, we also consider tiling a cofinite subset of the plane. The tileability is undecidable for many variants of this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-17 Jed Yang

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

The Wang tiling is a classical problem in combinatorics. A major theoretical question is to find a (small) set of tiles which tiles the plane only aperiodically. In this case, resulting tilings are rather restrictive. On the other hand,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Alexandre Derouet-Jourdan , Shizuo Kaji , Yoshihiro Mizoguchi

In this paper we improve the approach of a previous paper about the domino problem in the hyperbolic plane, see arXiv.cs.CG/0603093. This time, we prove that the general problem of the hyperbolic plane with \`a la Wang tiles is undecidable.

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Margenstern Maurice

In this paper, we prove that the general tiling problem of the hyperbolic plane is undecidable by proving a slightly stronger version using only a regular polygon as the basic shape of the tiles. The problem was raised by a paper of Raphael…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2008-04-19 Maurice Margenstern

The present paper is a new version of the arXiv paper revisiting the proof given in a previous paper of the author published in 2008 proving that the general tiling problem of the hyperbolic plane is undecidable by proving a slightly…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Maurice Margenstern

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

We show that the domino problem is undecidable on orbit graphs of non-deterministic substitutions which satisfy a technical property. As an application, we prove that the domino problem is undecidable for the fundamental group of any closed…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-07 Nathalie Aubrun , Sebastián Barbieri , Etienne Moutot

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

The finiteness problem for automaton groups and semigroups has been widely studied, several partial positive results are known. However we prove that, in the most general case, the problem is undecidable. We study the case of automaton…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-21 Pierre Gillibert
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