Periodicity and decidability of translational tilings by rational polygonal sets

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Auteurs principaux: Pont, Jaume de Dios, Grebík, Jan, Greenfeld, Rachel, Madrid, Jose
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author Pont, Jaume de Dios
Grebík, Jan
Greenfeld, Rachel
Madrid, Jose
author_facet Pont, Jaume de Dios
Grebík, Jan
Greenfeld, Rachel
Madrid, Jose
contents The periodic tiling conjecture asserts that if a region $Σ\subset \mathbb R^d$ tiles $\mathbb R^d$ by translations then it admits at least one fully periodic tiling. This conjecture is known to hold in $\mathbb R$, and recently it was disproved in sufficiently high dimensions. In this paper, we study the periodic tiling conjecture for polygonal sets: bounded open sets in $\mathbb R^2$ whose boundary is a finite union of line segments. We prove the periodic tiling conjecture for any polygonal tile whose vertices are rational. As a corollary of our argument, we also obtain the decidability of tilings by rational polygonal sets. Moreover, we prove that any translational tiling by a rational polygonal tile is weakly-periodic, i.e., can be partitioned into finitely many singly-periodic pieces.
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spellingShingle Periodicity and decidability of translational tilings by rational polygonal sets
Pont, Jaume de Dios
Grebík, Jan
Greenfeld, Rachel
Madrid, Jose
Combinatorics
03B25, 52C22, 52C23
The periodic tiling conjecture asserts that if a region $Σ\subset \mathbb R^d$ tiles $\mathbb R^d$ by translations then it admits at least one fully periodic tiling. This conjecture is known to hold in $\mathbb R$, and recently it was disproved in sufficiently high dimensions. In this paper, we study the periodic tiling conjecture for polygonal sets: bounded open sets in $\mathbb R^2$ whose boundary is a finite union of line segments. We prove the periodic tiling conjecture for any polygonal tile whose vertices are rational. As a corollary of our argument, we also obtain the decidability of tilings by rational polygonal sets. Moreover, we prove that any translational tiling by a rational polygonal tile is weakly-periodic, i.e., can be partitioned into finitely many singly-periodic pieces.
title Periodicity and decidability of translational tilings by rational polygonal sets
topic Combinatorics
03B25, 52C22, 52C23
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02151