Tiling a circular disc with congruent pieces

DOI10.1007/S00009-020-01595-3MaRDI QIDQ2199765zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zsolt Lángi, Viktor Vígh, Árpád Kurusa

Publication date 14 September 2020

Published in Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.03836

zbMATH Keywords

dissectionEuclidean circular discJordan regionmonohedral tilingrotational symmetrytopological disc

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Tilings in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C20) Rigidity and flexibility of structures (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C25)

Abstract: In this note we prove that any monohedral tiling of the closed circular unit disc with $kleq3$ topological discs as tiles has a $k$-fold rotational symmetry. This result yields the first nontrivial estimate about the minimum number of tiles in a monohedral tiling of the circular disc in which not all tiles contain the center, and the first step towards answering a question of Stein appearing in the problem book of Croft, Falconer and Guy in 1994.

Review text

Let \(B\) be a Euclidean circular disc with center \(o\). A topological disc is an image of \(B\) under a homeomorphism of the Euclidean plane. A monohedral tiling of \(B\) with tiles \(B_1,\ldots,B_k\) is given when \(B_1,\dots,B_k\) are mutually congruent topological discs with disjoint interiors such that \(B=B_1 \cup \dots \cup B_k\). It is shown that every monohedral tiling of \(B\) with \(k \in \{2,3\}\) tiles has a \(k\)-fold rotational symmetry with center \(o\). In particular, there is no monohedral tiling of \(B\) with \(k \le 3\) tiles such that at least one tile does not contain \(o\).

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