On the tiling by translation problem

  • Authors:
  • S. Brlek;X. Provençal;Jean-Marc Fédou

  • Affiliations:
  • LaCIM, Université du Québec í Montréal, C. P. 8888 Succursale "Centre-Ville", Montréal (QC), Canada H3C 3P8;LaCIM, Université du Québec í Montréal, C. P. 8888 Succursale "Centre-Ville", Montréal (QC), Canada H3C 3P8;Laboratoire I3S - CNRS - UMR 6070, Université de Nice, Les Algorithmes - bt. Euclide B, BP.121, 06903 Sophia Antipolis - Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

On square or hexagonal lattices, tiles or polyominoes are coded by words. The polyominoes that tile the plane by translation are characterized by the Beauquier-Nivat condition. By using the constant time algorithms for computing the longest common extensions in two words, we provide a linear time algorithm in the case of pseudo-square polyominoes, improving the previous quadratic algorithm of Gambini and Vuillon. We also have a linear algorithm for pseudo-hexagon polyominoes not containing arbitrarily large square factors. The results are extended to more general tiles.