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An N -tiling of triangle ABC by triangle T is a way of writing ABC as a union of N triangles congruent to T, overlapping only at their boundaries. The triangle T is the "tile". The tile may or may not be similar to ABC . We wish to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-12 Michael Beeson

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

Defant, Li, Propp, and Young recently resolved two enumerative conjectures of Propp concerning the tilings of regions in the hexagonal grid called benzels using two types of prototiles called stones and bones (with varying constraints on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Colin Defant , Leigh Foster , Rupert Li , James Propp , Benjamin Young

An $SL_2$-tiling is a bi-infinite matrix of positive integers such that each adjacent 2 by 2 submatrix has determinant 1. Such tilings are infinite analogues of Conway-Coxeter friezes, and they have strong links to cluster algebras,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Christine Bessenrodt , Thorsten Holm , Peter Jorgensen

In this paper a closed form expression for the number of tilings of an $n\times n$ square border with $1\times 1$ and $2\times1$ cuisenaire rods is proved using a transition matrix approach. This problem is then generalised to $m\times n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-01 M. Connolly

Edge-to-edge tilings of the sphere by congruent quadrilaterals are completely classified in a series of three papers. This second one applies the powerful tool of trigonometric Diophantine equations to classify the case of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Yixi Liao , Erxiao Wang

We introduce and study the number of tilings of unit height rectangles with irrational tiles. We prove that the class of sequences of these numbers coincides with the class of diagonals of N-rational generating functions and a class of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-01 Scott Garrabrant , Igor Pak

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

We find the exact formula for the number of distinct $n \times n$ square patterns which appear in a Robinson tiling made of one infinite order supertile.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Ilya Galanov

In this paper, we introduce a generalization of a class of tilings which appear in the literature: the tilings over which a height function can be defined (for example, the famous tilings of polyominoes with dominoes). We show that many…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Olivier Bodini , Matthieu Latapy

A tiling is said to have infinite local complexity (ILC) if it contains infinitely many two-tile patches up to rigid motions. In this work, we provide examples of substitution rules that generate tilings with ILC. The proof relies on…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-20 April Lynne D. Say-awen

We present aperiodic sets of prototiles whose shapes are based on the well-known Penrose rhomb tiling. Some decorated prototiles lead to an exact Penrose rhomb tiling without any matching rules. We also give an approximate solution to an…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Mike Winkler

Aperiodic tilings are non-periodic tilings characterized by local constraints. They play a key role in the proof of the undecidability of the domino problem (1964) and naturally model quasicrystals (discovered in 1982). A central question…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-04 Thomas Fernique , Mathieu Sablik

Every normal periodic tiling is a strongly balanced tiling. The properties of periodic tilings by convex polygons are rearranged from the knowledge of strongly balanced tilings. From the results, we show the properties of representative…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Teruhisa Sugimoto

A universal tiler is a convex polyhedron whose every cross-section tiles the plane. In this paper, we introduce a certain slight-rotating operation for cross-sections of pentahedra. Based on a selected initial cross-section and by applying…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-23 David G. L. Wang

A rectangulation is a tiling of a rectangle by a finite number of rectangles. The rectangulation is called generic if no four of its rectangles share a single corner. We initiate the enumeration of generic rectangulations up to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Nathan Reading

We study tilings of the plane composed of two repeating tiles of different assigned areas relative to an arbitrary periodic lattice. We classify isoperimetric configurations (i.e., configurations with minimal length of the interfaces) both…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Francesco Nobili , Matteo Novaga , Emanuele Paolini

We prove that acylindrically hyperbolic groups are monotileable. That is, every finite subset of the group is contained in a finite tile. This provides many new examples of monotileable groups, and progress on the question of whether every…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Joseph MacManus , Lawk Mineh

Cover-inclusive Dyck tilings are tilings of skew Young diagrams with ribbon tiles shaped like Dyck paths, in which tiles are no larger than the tiles they cover. These tilings arise in the study of certain statistical physics models and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-21 Jang Soo Kim , Karola Meszaros , Greta Panova , David B. Wilson

Moir\'e patterns of twisted and scaled bilayers have recently emerged as a fertile source of quasiperiodic order in two-dimensional materials. Inspired by these systems, we introduce the \emph{near-coincidence method} for generating…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-07 Meshy Ochana , Ron Lifshitz