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We analyze the general problem of determining optimally dense packings, in a Euclidean or hyperbolic space, of congruent copies of some fixed finite set of bodies. We are strongly guided by examples of aperiodic tilings in Euclidean space…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-11 Lewis Bowen , Charles Holton , Charles Radin , Lorenzo Sadun

One of the most fundamental problems in tiling theory is the domino problem: given a set of tiles and tiling rules, decide if there exists a way to tile the plane using copies of tiles and following their rules. The problem is known to be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Nathalie Aubrun , Manon Blanc , Olivier Bournez

The hexagon is the least-perimeter tile in the Euclidean plane. On hyperbolic surfaces, the isoperimetric problem differs for every given area. Cox conjectured that a regular $k$-gonal tile with 120-degree angles is isoperimetric for its…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Jack Hirsch , Kevin Li , Jackson Petty , Christopher Xue

Is there a fixed dimension $n$ such that translational tiling of $\mathbb{Z}^n$ with a monotile is undecidable? Several recent results support a positive answer to this question. Greenfeld and Tao disprove the periodic tiling conjecture by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Chan Yang , Zhujun Zhang

R. Nandakumar asked whether there is a tiling of the plane by pairwise incongruent triangles of equal area and equal perimeter. Recently a negative answer was given by Kupavskii, Pach and Tardos. Still one may ask for weaker versions of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Dirk Frettlöh , Christian Richter

In this paper, we develop the mathematical tools needed to explore isotopy classes of tilings on hyperbolic surfaces of finite genus, possibly nonorientable, with boundary, and punctured. More specifically, we generalize results on…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-08-13 Benedikt Kolbe , Myfanwy E. Evans

The hexagon is the least-perimeter tile in the Euclidean plane for any given area. On hyperbolic surfaces, this "isoperimetric" problem differs for every given area, as solutions do not scale. Cox conjectured that a regular $k$-gonal tile…

We study constrained percolation models on planar lattices including the $[m,4,n,4]$ lattice and the square tilings of the hyperbolic plane, satisfying certain local constraints on faces of degree 4, and investigate the existence of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-30 Zhongyang Li

A local description of the non-flat infinitesimally bendable Euclidean hypersurfaces was recently given by Dajczer and Vlachos \cite{DaVl}. From their classification, it follows that there is an abundance of infinitesimally bendable…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-30 Miguel Ibieta Jimenez

We study overdetermined problems for fully nonlinear elliptic equations in subdomains $\O$ of the Euclidean sphere $\mathbb{S}^{N}$ and the hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^{N}$. We prove, the existence of a classical solution to the underlined…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Ignace Aristide Minlend

In this paper, we prove two results. First, there is a family of sequences of embedded quarters of the hyperbolic plane such that any sequence converges to a limit which is an end of the hyperbolic plane. Second, there is no algorithm which…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-08-03 Maurice Margenstern

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

In this paper we present new results regarding the periodicity of outer billiards in the hyperbolic plane around polygonal tables which are tiles in regular two-piece tilings of the hyperbolic plane.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-01-20 FIliz Dogru , Emily Fischer , Cristian Mihai Munteanu

We say that a tiling separates discs of a packing in the Euclidean plane, if each tile contains exactly one member of the packing. It is a known elementary geometric problem to show that for each locally finite packing of circular discs,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Andras Bezdek

We introduce a new tiling algorithm for hyperbolic 3-manifolds. We use it to compute the maximal cusp area matrix; this completely characterizes the space of all embedded and disjoint cusp neighborhoods. As another application of our work,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Matthias Goerner

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 show that the problem `whether a finite set of regular-linear axioms defines a rigid theory' is undecidable.

Logic · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Mikołaj Bojanczyk , Stanisław Szawiel , Marek Zawadowski

We show that the problem of tiling the Euclidean plane with a finite set of polygons (up to translation) boils down to prove the existence of zeros of a non-negative convex function defined on a finite-dimensional simplex. This function is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-08 J. -R. Chazottes , J. -M. Gambaudo , F. Gautero

We prove the undecidability of determining whether a Turing machine yields an eventually periodic trajectory. From this, we deduce the undecidability of orbit finiteness in the polynomial dynamical system on infinite tuples of integers.

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Gwangyong Gwon

An irregular vertex in a tiling by polygons is a vertex of one tile and belongs to the interior of an edge of another tile. In this paper we show that for any integer $k\geq 3$, there exists a normal tiling of the Euclidean plane by convex…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Dirk Frettlöh , Alexey Glazyrin , Zsolt Lángi