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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

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

This paper investigates the geometric constraints imposed on a domain by overdetermined problems for partial differential equations. Serrin's symmetry results are extended to overdetermined problems with potentially degenerate ellipticity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Daomin Cao , Juncheng Wei , Weicheng Zhan

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

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

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

This article is dedicated to domino tilings of square grids. In each of these grids domino tilings are represented using linear-recurrent sequences. For different grids are determined new dependencies.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2017-08-01 Valcho Milchev , Tsvetelina Karamfilova

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

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

Tilings of a surface of negative Euler characteristic by n-gons with n\ge 7 is a finite problem. We develop the algorithm for finding all the tilings for fixed number of tiles and present the calculation for tilings of surfaces of small…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Chunlin Li , Erxiao Wang , Wu Jie , Min Yan

We prove combinatorially that the parity of the number of domino tilings of a region is equal to the parity of the number of domino tilings of a particular subregion. Using this result we can resolve the holey square conjecture. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bridget Eileen Tenner

The problem of deciding, given a complex variety X, a point x in X, and a subvariety Z of X, whether there is an automorphism of X mapping x into Z is proved undecidable. Along the way, we prove the undecidability of a version of Hilbert's…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-03 Bjorn Poonen

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

We study tilings of regions in the square lattice with L-shaped trominoes. Deciding the existence of a tiling with L-trominoes for an arbitrary region in general is NP-complete, nonetheless, we identify restrictions to the problem where it…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Javier T. Akagi , Carlos F. Gaona , Fabricio Mendoza , Manjil P. Saikia , Marcos Villagra

We study the seeded domino problem, the recurring domino problem and the $k$-SAT problem on finitely generated groups. These problems are generalization of their original versions on $\mathbb{Z}^2$ that were shown to be undecidable using…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Nicolás Bitar

In this article we study domino snake problems on finitely generated groups. We provide general properties of these problems and introduce new tools for their study. The first is the use of symbolic dynamics to understand the set of all…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Nathalie Aubrun , Nicolas Bitar

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

Given a finite collection of two-dimensional tile types, the field of study concerned with covering the plane with tiles of these types exclusively has a long history, having enjoyed great prominence in the last six to seven decades. Much…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-24 Eduardo J. Aguilar , Valmir C. Barbosa , Raul Donangelo , Sergio R. Souza

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 investigate the dynamics of substitution subshifts and their associated tiling spaces. For a given subshift, the associated tiling spaces are all homeomorphic, but their dynamical properties may differ. We give criteria for such a tiling…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-07-11 Alex Clark , Lorenzo Sadun