T-Tetrominos in Arithmetic Progression

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Autori principali: Feller, Emily, Hochberg, Robert
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author Feller, Emily
Hochberg, Robert
author_facet Feller, Emily
Hochberg, Robert
contents A famous result of D. Walkup is that an $m\times n$ rectangle may be tiled by T-tetrominos if and only if both $m$ and $n$ are multiples of 4. The "if" portion may be proved by tiling a $4\times 4$ block, and then copying that block to fill the rectangle; but, this leads to regular, periodic tilings. In this paper we investigate how much "order" must be present in every tiling of a rectangle by T-tetrominos, where we measure order by length of arithmetic progressions of tiles.
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spellingShingle T-Tetrominos in Arithmetic Progression
Feller, Emily
Hochberg, Robert
Combinatorics
05D10, 05B45
A famous result of D. Walkup is that an $m\times n$ rectangle may be tiled by T-tetrominos if and only if both $m$ and $n$ are multiples of 4. The "if" portion may be proved by tiling a $4\times 4$ block, and then copying that block to fill the rectangle; but, this leads to regular, periodic tilings. In this paper we investigate how much "order" must be present in every tiling of a rectangle by T-tetrominos, where we measure order by length of arithmetic progressions of tiles.
title T-Tetrominos in Arithmetic Progression
topic Combinatorics
05D10, 05B45
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00533