Tiling Triangles with $2\pi/3$ Angles
Combinatorics
2026-04-07 v4
Abstract
Motivated by a question of Erd\"{o}s and inquiries by Beeson and Laczkovich, we explore the possible for which a triangle can tile into congruent copies of a triangle . The \emph{reptile} cases (where is similar to ) and the \emph{commensurable-angles} cases (where all angles of are rational multiples of ) are well-understood. We tackle the most interesting remaining case, which is when contains an angle of and when is one of ``sporadic'' specific triangles, of which only were known to have constructions. For each of these, we create a family of constructions and conjecture that they are the only possible that occur for these triangles.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2512.22696,
title = {Tiling Triangles with $2\pi/3$ Angles},
author = {Yan X Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.22696},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
16 pages, 12 figures