Irregular tilings of regular polygons with similar triangles

DOI10.1007/S00454-021-00297-1MaRDI QIDQ2665259zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Laczkovich

Publication date 18 November 2021

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12013

zbMATH Keywords

regular and irregular tilingsregular polygonstilings with triangles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We say that a triangle $T$ tiles a polygon $A$, if $A$ can be dissected into finitely many nonoverlapping triangles similar to $T$. We show that if $N>42$, then there are at most three nonsimilar triangles $T$ such that the angles of $T$ are rational multiples of $pi$ and $T$ tiles the regular $N$-gon. A tiling into similar triangles is called regular, if the pieces have two angles, $al$ and $$, such that at each vertex of the tiling the number of angles $al$ is the same as that of $$. Otherwise the tiling is irregular. It is known that for every regular polygon $A$ there are infinitely many triangles that tile $A$ regularly. We show that if $N>10$, then a triangle $T$ tiles the regular $N$-gon irregularly only if the angles of $T$ are rational multiples of $pi$. Therefore, the numbers of triangles tiling the regular $N$-gon irregularly is at most three for every $N>42$.

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