Tilings with noncongruent triangles

DOI10.1016/J.EJC.2018.05.005MaRDI QIDQ1663799zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors János Pach, Gábor Tardos, Andrey B. Kupavskii

Publication date 24 August 2018

Published in European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04504, http://real.mtak.hu/82748/1/1711.04504v3.pdf

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Tilings in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C20)

Abstract: We solve a problem of R. Nandakumar by proving that there is no tiling of the plane with pairwise noncongruent triangles of equal area and equal perimeter. We also show that no convex polygon with more than three sides can be tiled with finitely many triangles such that no pair of them share a full side.

Review text

A family of (closed) triangles is said to form a tiling if together the triangles fill the whole plane with no gaps and no overlaps. A few years ago, R. Nandakumar proposed the following question ``Is it possible to tile the plane with pairwise noncongruent triangles of the same area and perimeter? The authors in this paper show that the answer to this question is false. Moreover, they also prove that any tiling of a convex polygon with at least four sides by finitely many triangles contains necessarily a pair of triangles that share a full side.

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• Convex equipartitions via equivariant obstruction theory
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• Equipartitioning by a convex 3-fan
• Fair partitions of polygons: an elementary introduction
• Research Problems in Discrete Geometry

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