Tromino Tiling Deficient Cubes of Any Side Length

MaRDI QIDQ3602149zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Norton Starr

Publication date 12 February 2009

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0524

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of tessellation and tiling problems (05B45) Polyominoes (05B50) Tilings in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C20)

Abstract: We show that three dimensional cubes of any size can be tiled with trominoes and, when necessary, one or two singletons in any positions. Cubes of side length a multiple of three can always be tiled with trominoes (known), cubes of side length congruent to 1 mod 3 can always be tiled with an arbitrary single cube and trominoes, and cubes of side length congruent to 2 mod 3 can always be tiled with two single cubes in arbitrary locations and trominoes.

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• Tiling One-Deficient Rectangular Solids with Trominoes in Three and Higher Dimensions
• More Fun with L-Trominoes in Three and Higher Dimensions

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