Dissecting a square into congruent polygons

DOI10.23638/DMTCS-22-1-21MaRDI QIDQ3386618zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Hui Rao, Lei Ren, Yang Wang

Publication date 5 January 2021

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03289

zbMATH Keywords

Eulerian graphhypotenuse graphtiling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of tessellation and tiling problems (05B45) Eulerian and Hamiltonian graphs (05C45) Tilings in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C20)

Abstract: We study the dissection of a square into congruent convex polygons. Yuan emph{et al.} [Dissecting the square into five congruent parts, Discrete Math. extbf{339} (2016) 288-298] asked whether, if the number of tiles is a prime number $geq3$, it is true that the tile must be a rectangle. We conjecture that the same conclusion still holds even if the number of tiles is an odd number $geq3$. Our conjecture has been confirmed for triangles in earlier works. We prove that the conjecture holds if either the tile is a convex $q$-gon with $qgeq6$ or it is a right-angle trapezoid.

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