Conditions for Discrete Equidecomposability of Polygons

MaRDI QIDQ6256851zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Paxton Turner, Yuhuai Wu

Publication date 30 November 2014

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dissections and valuations (Hilbert's third problem, etc.) (52B45)

Abstract: Two rational polygons $P$ and $Q$ are said to be discretely equidecomposable if there exists a piecewise affine-unimodular bijection (equivalently, a piecewise affine-linear bijection that preserves the integer lattice $mathbbZimesmathbbZ$) from $P$ to $Q$. In [TW14], we developed an invariant for rational finite discrete equidecomposability known as weight. Here we extend this program with a necessary and sufficient condition for rational finite discrete equidecomposability. We close with an algorithm for detecting and constructing equidecomposability relations between rational polygons $P$ and $Q$.

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