Hexagon tilings of the plane that are not edge-to-edge

DOI10.1007/S10474-021-01155-5zbMATH Open1488.52026arXiv1911.12752OpenAlexW3173082064MaRDI QIDQ2043735FDOQ2043735

Zsolt Lángi, Dirk Frettlöh, Alexey Glazyrin

Publication date: 3 August 2021

Published in: Acta Mathematica Hungarica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An irregular vertex in a tiling by polygons is a vertex of one tile and belongs to the interior of an edge of another tile. In this paper we show that for any integer $kgeq3$, there exists a normal tiling of the Euclidean plane by convex hexagons of unit area with exactly $k$ irregular vertices. Using the same approach we show that there are normal edge-to-edge tilings of the plane by hexagons of unit area and exactly $k$ many $n$-gons ($n>6$) of unit area. A result of Akopyan yields an upper bound for $k$ depending on the maximal diameter and minimum area of the tiles. Our result complements this with a lower bound for the extremal case, thus showing that Akopyan's bound is asymptotically tight.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12752

zbMATH Keywords

convex hexagonirregular vertextiling of the planenormal tiling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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