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Recently, two extraordinary results on aperiodic monotiles have been obtained in two different settings. One is a family of aperiodic monotiles in the plane discovered by Smith, Myers, Kaplan and Goodman-Strauss in 2023, where rotation is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Chao Yang , Zhujun Zhang

Nandakumar asked whether there is a tiling of the plane by pairwise non-congruent triangles of equal area and equal perimeter. Here a weaker result is obtained: there is a tiling of the plane by pairwise non-congruent triangles of equal…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-31 Dirk Frettlöh

In this paper, we consider the finite tiling problem which was proved undecidable in the Euclidean plane by Jarkko Kari in 1994. Here, we prove that the same problem for the hyperbolic plane is also undecidable.

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

We show how to determine if a given simple rectilinear polygon can be tiled with rectangles, each having an integer side.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Richard Kenyon

We show that a single prototile can fill space uniformly but not admit a periodic tiling. A two-dimensional, hexagonal prototile with markings that enforce local matching rules is proven to be aperiodic by two independent methods. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Joshua E. S. Socolar , Joan M. Taylor

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

Suppose $f\in L^1(\mathbb{R}^d)$, $\Lambda\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ is a finite union of translated lattices such that $f+\Lambda$ tiles with a weight. We prove that there exists a lattice $L\subset{\mathbb{R}}^d$ such that $f+L$ also tiles,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Bochen Liu

We introduce a new family of nonperiodic tilings, based on a substitution rule that generalizes the pinwheel tiling of Conway and Radin. In each tiling the tiles are similar to a single triangular prototile. In a countable number of cases,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Lorenzo Sadun

We present a single, connected tile which can tile the plane but only non-periodically. The tile is hexagonal with edge markings, which impose simple rules as to how adjacent tiles are allowed to meet across edges. The first of these rules…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-19 James J. Walton , Michael F. Whittaker

We give a $O(n)$-time algorithm for determining whether translations of a polyomino with $n$ edges can tile the plane. The algorithm is also a $O(n)$-time algorithm for enumerating all such tilings that are also regular, and we prove that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-09-23 Andrew Winslow

Let $T$ be a tile in $\mathbb{Z}^n$, meaning a finite subset of $\mathbb{Z}^n$. It may or may not tile $\mathbb{Z}^n$, in the sense of $\mathbb{Z}^n$ having a partition into copies of $T$. However, we prove that $T$ does tile $\mathbb{Z}^d$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-23 Vytautas Gruslys , Imre Leader , Ta Sheng Tan

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 solve a problem of R. Nandakumar by proving that there is no tiling of the plane with pairwise noncongruent triangles of equal area and equal perimeter. We also show that no convex polygon with more than three sides can be tiled with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-12 Andrey Kupavskii , János Pach , Gábor Tardos

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

We prove that the joint embedding property is undecidable for hereditary graph classes, via a reduction from the tiling problem. The proof is then adapted to show the undecidability of the joint homomorphism property as well.

Logic · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Samuel Braunfeld

We give a new proof of the following interesting fact recently proved by Bower and Michael: if a d-dimensional rectangular box can be tiled using translates of two types of rectangular bricks, then it can also be tiled in the following way.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mihail N. Kolountzakis

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

Given a tiling of a 2D grid with several types of tiles, we can count for every row and column how many tiles of each type it intersects. These numbers are called the_projections_. We are interested in the problem of reconstructing a tiling…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-09-25 Marek Chrobak , Peter Couperus , Christoph Durr , Gerhard Woeginger

It is open whether equivalence ( f = g ) is decidable for string-to-string polyregular functions. We consider their higher-order extension based on the {\lambda}-calculus definition of polyregular functions from Boja\'nczyk (2018). In this…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Mikołaj Bojańczyk , Grzegorz Fabiański , Rafał Stefański

An algorithm is provided to tile the plane with the aperiodic monotile Tile(1,1) recently discovered by Smith et al. (2023). Their geometric construction guidelines are expanded into a numerical MATLAB algorithm. The intention is to remove…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Henning U. Voss