A parallelogram tile fills the plane by translation in at most two distinct ways

  • Authors:
  • A. Blondin Massé;S. Brlek;S. Labbé

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire LaCIM, Un. du Québec í Montréal, C.P. 8888 Succursale "Centre-Ville", Montréal (QC), Canada H3C 3P8 and Laboratoire de mathématiques, Un. de Savoie, Bítim ...;Laboratoire LaCIM, Un. du Québec í Montréal, C.P. 8888 Succursale "Centre-Ville", Montréal (QC), Canada H3C 3P8;Laboratoire LaCIM, Un. du Québec í Montréal, C.P. 8888 Succursale "Centre-Ville", Montréal (QC), Canada H3C 3P8 and Laboratoire d'Informatique Algorithmique: Fondements et Appl ...

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We consider the tilings by translation of a single polyomino or tile on the square grid Z^2. It is well-known that there are two regular tilings of the plane, namely, parallelogram and hexagonal tilings. Although there exist tiles admitting an arbitrary number of distinct hexagon tilings, it has been conjectured that no polyomino admits more than two distinct parallelogram tilings. In this paper, we prove this conjecture.