Multiple tilings by cubes with no shared faces

DOI10.1007/BF02189600MaRDI QIDQ790820zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Sándor Szabó

Publication date 1982

Published in Aequationes Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/136949

zbMATH Keywords

\(k\)-fold tilinghypercubelattice cube tilings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of packing and covering (05B40) Lattice packing and covering (number-theoretic aspects) (11H31) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17)

Review text

In analogy to a famous conjecture by Minkowski and the equally famous affirmative answer by \textit{G. Hajós} [Math. Fiz. Lapok 48, 37-64 (1941; Zbl 0025.02902)] it as asked whether, for a given pair \((k,n)\) of positive integers, we can find, in any \(k\)-fold tiling of the Euclidean space \(R^ n\) by translates of the unit cube, a pair of cubes which share an \((n-1)\)-dimensional face. By an explicit construction, based on earlier work of \textit{G. Hajós} [Mat. Fiz. Lapok 45, 171-190 (1938; Zbl 0020.00604)] and \textit{R. Robinson} [Math. Z. 166, 225-264 (1979; Zbl 0398.52006)], the author gives a negative answer to this question, for all \((k,n)\) with \(k\geq 2\) and \(n\geq 3\).

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