Undecidability of Translational Tiling with Three Tiles

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Main Authors: Yang, Chan, Zhang, Zhujun
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Zhang, Zhujun
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Zhang, Zhujun
contents Is there a fixed dimension $n$ such that translational tiling of $\mathbb{Z}^n$ with a monotile is undecidable? Several recent results support a positive answer to this question. Greenfeld and Tao disprove the periodic tiling conjecture by showing that an aperiodic monotile exists in sufficiently high dimension $n$ [Ann. Math. 200(2024), 301-363]. In another paper [to appear in J. Eur. Math. Soc.], they also show that if the dimension $n$ is part of the input, then the translational tiling for subsets of $\mathbb{Z}^n$ with one tile is undecidable. These two results are very strong pieces of evidence for the conjecture that translational tiling of $\mathbb{Z}^n$ with a monotile is undecidable, for some fixed $n$. This paper gives another supportive result for this conjecture by showing that translational tiling of the $4$-dimensional space with a set of three connected tiles is undecidable.
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spellingShingle Undecidability of Translational Tiling with Three Tiles
Yang, Chan
Zhang, Zhujun
Combinatorics
Computational Complexity
Computational Geometry
Metric Geometry
Is there a fixed dimension $n$ such that translational tiling of $\mathbb{Z}^n$ with a monotile is undecidable? Several recent results support a positive answer to this question. Greenfeld and Tao disprove the periodic tiling conjecture by showing that an aperiodic monotile exists in sufficiently high dimension $n$ [Ann. Math. 200(2024), 301-363]. In another paper [to appear in J. Eur. Math. Soc.], they also show that if the dimension $n$ is part of the input, then the translational tiling for subsets of $\mathbb{Z}^n$ with one tile is undecidable. These two results are very strong pieces of evidence for the conjecture that translational tiling of $\mathbb{Z}^n$ with a monotile is undecidable, for some fixed $n$. This paper gives another supportive result for this conjecture by showing that translational tiling of the $4$-dimensional space with a set of three connected tiles is undecidable.
title Undecidability of Translational Tiling with Three Tiles
topic Combinatorics
Computational Complexity
Computational Geometry
Metric Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10646