Tiling R^5 by crosses

DOI10.1007/S00454-014-9569-6MaRDI QIDQ2250044zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter Horák, Viliam Hromada

Publication date 4 July 2014

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.4436

zbMATH Keywords

\(n\)-crossface-to-face tilingnon-regular tilingunit cube

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: An $n$-dimensional cross comprises $2n+1$ unit cubes: the center cube and reflections in all its faces. It is well known that there is a tiling of $R^n$ by crosses for all $n.$ AlBdaiwi and the first author proved that if $2n+1$ is not a prime then there are $2^{alep{h}_0}$ non-congruent regular (= face-to-face) tilings of $R^n$ by crosses, while there is a unique tiling of $R^n$ by crosses for $n=2,3$. They conjectured that this is always the case if $2n+1$ is a prime. To support the conjecture we prove in this paper that also for $R^5$ there is a unique regular, and no non-regular, tiling by crosses. So there is a unique tiling of $R^3$ by crosses, there are $2^{alep{h}_0}$ tilings of $R^4,$ but for $R^5$ there is again only one tiling by crosses. We guess that this result goes against our intuition that suggests "the higher the dimension of the space, the more freedom we get".

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