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We prove that the following problem is co-RE-complete and thus undecidable: given three simple polygons, is there a tiling of the plane where every tile is an isometry of one of the three polygons (either allowing or forbidding…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Erik D. Demaine , Stefan Langerman

We introduce a notion of "simulation" for labelled graphs, in which edges of the simulated graph are realized by regular expressions in the simulating graph, and prove that the tiling problem (aka "domino problem") for the simulating graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Laurent Bartholdi , Ville Salo

We consider domino tilings of three-dimensional cubiculated regions. A flip is a local move: two neighboring parallel dominoes are removed and placed back in a different position. The twist is an integer associated to each tiling, which is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Nicolau C. Saldanha

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

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

We consider three-dimensional domino tilings of cylinders $\mathcal{R}_N = \mathcal{D} \times [0,N]$ where $\mathcal{D} \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ is a fixed quadriculated disk and $N \in \mathbb{N}$. A domino is a $2 \times 1 \times 1$ brick. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Raphael de Marreiros

In the 60's, Berger famously showed that translational tilings of $\mathbb{Z}^2$ with multiple tiles are algorithmically undecidable. Recently, Bhattacharya proved the decidability of translational monotilings (tilings by translations of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Rachel Greenfeld , Terence Tao

This paper presents an algorithm for computing the contraction of two-dimensional tensor networks on a square lattice; and we combine it with solving congruence equations to compute the exact enumeration (including weighted enumeration) of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Kai Liang

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

The periodic tiling conjecture asserts that if a region $\Sigma\subset \mathbb R^d$ tiles $\mathbb R^d$ by translations then it admits at least one fully periodic tiling. This conjecture is known to hold in $\mathbb R$, and recently it was…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Jaume de Dios Pont , Jan Grebík , Rachel Greenfeld , Jose Madrid

The classical Domino problem asks whether there exists a tiling in which none of the forbidden patterns given as input appear. In this paper, we consider the aperiodic version of the Domino problem: given as input a family of forbidden…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Antonin Callard , Benjamin Hellouin de Menibus

We introduce the idea that the P vs NP problem can have a finer structure. Given the NP complete problem of interest, the configurations space of the problem can be divided in (at least) two regions. In one region, polynomial algorithms to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-28 Fabrizio Canfora , Marco Cedeno

Recently, Greenfeld and Tao disprove the conjecture that translational tilings of a single tile can always be periodic [Ann. Math. 200(2024), 301-363]. In another paper [to appear in J. Eur. Math. Soc.], they also show that if the dimension…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Chao Yang , Zhujun Zhang

We consider tilings of quadriculated regions by dominoes and of triangulated regions by lozenges. We present an overview of results concerning tileability, enumeration and the structure of the space of tilings.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nicolau C. Saldanha , Carlos Tomei

We consider domino tilings of $3$-dimensional cubiculated regions. A three-dimensional domino is a 2x2x1 rectangular cuboid. We are particularly interested in regions of the form $R_N = D \times [0,N]$ where $D$ is a fixed quadriculated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Nicolau C. Saldanha

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

In this paper, we consider the periodic tiling problem which was proved undecidable in the Euclidean plane by Yu. Gurevich and I. Koriakov in 1972. Here, we prove that the same problem for the hyperbolic plane is also undecidable.

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

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 prove that any finite set $F\subset {\mathbb{Z}^2}$ that tiles ${\mathbb{Z}^2}$ by translations also admits a periodic tiling. As a consequence, the problem whether a given finite set $F$ tiles ${\mathbb{Z}^2}$ is decidable.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-19 Siddhartha Bhattacharya

We formulate and prove a variational principle (in the sense of thermodynamics) for random domino tilings, or equivalently for the dimer model on a square grid. This principle states that a typical tiling of an arbitrary finite region can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-15 Henry Cohn , Richard Kenyon , James Propp