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We count tilings of the $n \times m$ rectangular grid, cylinder, and torus with arbitrary tile sets up to arbitrary symmetries of the square and rectangle, along with cyclic shifting of rows and columns. This provides a unifying framework…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Peter Kagey , William Keehn

We know that tilesets that can tile the plane always admit a quasi-periodic tiling [4, 8], yet they hold many uncomputable properties [3, 11, 21, 25]. The quasi-periodicity function is one way to measure the regularity of a quasi-periodic…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2010-12-07 Alexis Ballier , Emmanuel Jeandel

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

We introduce a new general framework for constructing tilings of Euclidean space, which we call multiscale substitution tilings. These tilings are generated by substitution schemes on a finite set of prototiles, in which multiple distinct…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Yotam Smilansky , Yaar Solomon

Given a collection of N rectangles such that the side ratio of each one is a quadratic irrationality, we find all rectangles which can be tiled by rectangles similar to one of the given ones. It means that each possible shape can be used…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Fyodor Sharov

In this paper we define an infinite family of triangular tilings of the hyperbolic plane defined by two parameters ranging in the natural nummbers and we give a uniform way to define coordinates for locating the triangles of the tiling.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Maurice Margenstern

We give a set of tiles that enforces the sphinx tiling substitution system; the tiles are thus aperiodic.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-26 Chaim Goodman-Strauss

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

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

Starting with a substitution tiling, we demonstrate a method for constructing infinitely many new substitution tilings. Each of these new tilings is derived from a graph iterated function system and the tiles have fractal boundary. We show…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-09-19 Natalie Priebe Frank , Samuel B. G. Webster , Michael F. Whittaker

Tilings and tiling systems are an abstract concept that arise both as a computational model and as a dynamical system. In this paper, we characterize the sets of periods that a tiling system can produce. We prove that up to a slight…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-09-23 Emmanuel Jeandel , Pascal Vanier

All edge-to-edge tilings of the sphere by congruent regular triangles and congruent rhombi are classified as: (1) a $1$-parameter family of protosets each admitting a unique $(2a^3,3a^4)$-tiling like a triangular prism; (2) a $1$-parameter…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Qi Yuan , Erxiao Wang

We determine all non-edge-to-edge tilings of the sphere by regular spherical polygons of three or more sides.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Colin Adams , Cameron Edgar , Peter Hollander , Liza Jacoby

We define a convolution operation on the set of polyominoes and use it to obtain a criterion for a given polyomino not to tile the plane (rotations and translations allowed). We apply the criterion to several families of polyominoes, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ali Ulas Ozgur Kisisel

We look at sets of tiles that can tile any region of size greater than 1 on the square grid. This is not the typical tiling question, but relates closely to it and therefore can help solve other tiling problems -- we give an example of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-11 Anne Kenyon , Martin Tassy

Sets of three types of convex pentagons that are aperiodic with no matching conditions on the edges are created from a chiral aperiodic monotile Tile(1, 1). This method divides the interior of Tile(1,1) into five convex polygons with five…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Teruhisa Sugimoto

We classify edge-to-edge tilings of the sphere by congruent pentagons with the edge combination $a^4b$ and with rational angles in degree: they are a one-parameter family of symmetric $a^4b$-pentagonal subdivisions of the tetrahedron with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Jinjin Liang , Yixi Liao , Wenchuan Hu , Erxiao Wang

A convex pentagonal tile is a convex pentagon that admits a monohedral tiling. We show that a convex pentagonal tile that admits a periodic tiling has a property in which the sum of three internal angles of the pentagon is equal to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-07 Teruhisa Sugimoto

The edge-to-edge tilings of the sphere by congruent polygons, where all edges are straight, have been completely classified. We classify the curvilinear version of the similar triangular tilings, where the edges may not be straight, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Keyi Jin , Linming Lu , Erxiao Wang , Lijuan Wu , Min Yan

While it is a classical result dating back to Dehn (1903) that squares composing a perfect rectangle must have rational side lengths, the arithmetic complexity of these tilings, specifically the growth of the denominators of these rational…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Paul Perrier