Sets of tiles with a prescribed number of tilings (Q1092913)

A tile is a closed subset of \(E^ 2\) homeomorphic to the unit disk. A tiling T is a family of tiles with pairwise disjoint interiors which cover \(E^ 2\). A set S of prototiles is a finite set of incongruent tiles. S admits a tiling if there is a tiling T for which every element of T is congruent to some element of S. If S contains k elements the tiling is k-hedral. If S admits r incongruent tilings then it is r- morphic. The author shows that there are k-hedral r-morphic tilings for every \(k\geq 2\) and \(r\geq 1\). The construction of the author's examples derives from tilings by copies of a large rectangle and copies of a small rectangle having a common dimension and arrayed in periodic strips, each shifted from the next by the same length. These rectangles are furnished with small keys, keyholes and lids as required.