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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 Z3\mathbb{Z}^3 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 Zn\mathbb{Z}^n can be simulated by the same number of connected tiles in Zn\mathbb{Z}^n for n3n \geq 3.

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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}
}
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