Undecidability of Translational Tiling with 2 Polycubes
Combinatorics
2025-08-19 v1
Abstract
In this paper, we prove that it is undecidable whether a set of two polycubes can tile by translation. The proof involves a new technique that allows us to simulate two disconnected polycubes with two connected polycubes. By expanding this technique to higher dimensions, we also prove that a set of disconnected tiles in can be simulated by the same number of connected tiles in for .
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@article{arxiv.2508.11725,
title = {Undecidability of Translational Tiling with 2 Polycubes},
author = {Yoonhu Kim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.11725},
year = {2025}
}