Incongruent equipartitions of the plane into quadrangles of equal perimeters (Q2037163): Difference between revisions

Motivated by some questions of Nandakumar, the authors consider tilings (non necessarily polytopal cell decompositions) of the plane by triangles and quadrangles. Nandakumar asked (\url{https://nandacumar.blogspot.com}) the following. Question 1: `Can the plane be tiled by triangles of same area and perimeter such that no two triangles are congruent to each other?' \textit{A. Kupavskii} et al. [Eur. J. Comb. 73, 72--80 (2018; Zbl 1406.52040)] showed that no such tiling exists. Nandakumar showed that `it is possible to find tilings of the plane by mutually incongruent triangles of unit area with unbounded perimeter' and asked the following. Question 2: `Can the plane be tiled by triangles of the same area, and with uniformly bounded perimeter, such that no two triangles are congruent to each other?' The first author [Springer Proc. Math. Stat. 234, 171--180 (2018; Zbl 1417.52027)] and \textit{A. Kupavskii} et al. [Acta Math. Hung. 155, No. 1, 175--183 (2018; Zbl 1413.52028)] showed that such tilings exist. The authors [Eur. J. Comb. 87, Article ID 103129, 12 p. (2020; Zbl 1439.52019)] found polyhedral tilings of that kind. In this article, the authors improve this result by showing that the ratio between the largest and smallest perimeter of the triangles in such a tiling can be chosen arbitrary close to 1. The main result in this article is the following. `There are tilings of the plane by pairwise incongruent convex quadrangles of the same area and perimeter'. Thus Question 1 has an affirmative answer for quadrangles.