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Let $\cal T$ be a tiling of the plane with equilateral triangles no two of which share a side. We prove that if the side lengths of the triangles are bounded from below by a positive constant, then $\cal T$ is periodic and it consists of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Janos Pach , Gabor Tardos

This is an appendix to the Handbook of Tilting Theory, edited by Angeleri-Huegel, Happel and Krause, to be published soon. Part 1 of the appendix provides an outline of the core of tilting theory. Part 2 is devoted to topics where tilting…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Claus Michael Ringel

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

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

In aperiodic order, non-periodic but "ordered" objects such as tilings, Delone sets, functions and measures are investigated. In this article we depict the common structure of these objects by using the general framework of abstract pattern…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Yasushi Nagai

We show that given any tiling of Euclidean space, any geometric patterns of points, we can find a patch of tiles (of arbitrarily large size) so that copies of this patch appear in the tiling nearly centered on a scaled and translated…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-09-09 Rafael de la Llave , Alistair Windsor

We give an alternative simple proof that the monotile introduced by Smith, Myers, Kaplan and Goodman-Strass is aperiodic.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Shigeki Akiyama , Yoshiaki Araki

Tilings of the plane resemble the simplicial and other complexes from algebraic topology, but have not been studied from this perspective. We construct finite categories corresponding to polygons with labeled directed edges, and introduce…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Catherine DiLeo , Preston Sessoms , Brandon T. Shapiro

We find explicit optimal vertex, edge and face coulourings for the chair tiling, the Ammann--Beenker tiling, the rational pinwheel tiling and the pinwheel tiling.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-15 Molly Evans , Dylan Gawlak , Christopher Ramsey , Nicolae Strungaru , Ryan Trang

This note describes how to construct toroidal polyhedra which are homotopic to a given type of knot and which admit an isohedral tiling of 3-space.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter Schmitt

We consider tilings of Euclidean spaces by polygons or polyhedra, in particular, tilings made by a substitution process, such as the Penrose tilings of the plane. We define an isomorphism invariant related to a subgroup of rotations and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Charles Radin , Lorenzo Sadun

It has been known since the beginning of this century that isomonodromic problems --- typically the Painlev\'e transcendents --- in a suitable asymptotic region look like a kind of ``modulation'' of isospectral problem. This connection…

solv-int · Physics 2008-02-03 Kanehisa Takasaki

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

In this paper, we consider a numerical method to solve scattering problems with multi-periodic layers with different periodicities. The main tool applied in this paper is the Bloch transform. With this method, the problem is written into an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Ruming Zhang

The goal of this work is to study the existence of quasi-periodic solutions in time to nonlinear beam equations with a multiplicative potential. The nonlinearities are required to only finitely differentiable and the frequency is along a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-06-16 Bochao Chen , Yixian Gao , Shan Jiang , Yong Li

This is a survey on algorithmic questions about combinatorial and geometric properties of convex polytopes. We give a list of 35 problems; for each the current state of knowledege on its theoretical complexity status is reported. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Volker Kaibel , Marc E. Pfetsch

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

This short article, which appeared in the MSRI Fall 2004 newletter, is intended for a general mathematical audience. It describes some mathematical themes from the Winter 2004 program at MSRI in topological aspects of real algebraic…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-29 Frank Sottile

We study the problem of perfect tiling in the plane and exploring the possibility of tiling a rectangle using integral distinct squares. Assume a set of distinguishable squares (or equivalently a set of distinct natural numbers) is given,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Bahram Sadeghi Bigham , Mansoor Davoodi , Samaneh Mazaheri , Jalal Kheyrabadi

Kautz and de Bruijn graphs have a high degree of connectivity which makes them ideal candidates for massively parallel computer network topologies. In order to realize a practical computer architecture based on these graphs, it is useful to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-01-11 Washington Taylor , Jud Leonard , Lawrence C. Stewart