Multiple coverings of the plane with triangles (Q2464370)

A planar set \(T\) is said to be cover-decomposable if the following holds. There exists a constant \(k= k(T)\) such that every \(k\)-fold covering of the plane with translates of \(T\) can be decomposed into two coverings. The conjecture of J. Pach is that all convex sets are cover-decomposable. J. Pach proved that every centrally symmetric open convex polygon is cover-decomposable. Based on the ideas of J. Pach the authors prove the conjecture for open triangles. They show namely that ``any 43-fold covering of the plane with translates of a triangle can be decomposed into two coverings''.