Tilings of (2 2 n)-board with coloured cubes and bricks

DOI10.1080/0020739X.2019.1676927MaRDI QIDQ5015349zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors László Németh

Publication date 7 December 2021

Published in International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11729

zbMATH Keywords

combinatorial identityrecurrence sequencetiling in space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19) Combinatorial aspects of tessellation and tiling problems (05B45) Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations (11B39) Tilings in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C22) Combinatorics (educational aspects) (97K20)

Abstract: Several articles deal with tilings with squares and dominoes on 2-dimensional boards, but only a few on boards in 3-dimensional space. We examine a tiling problem with colored cubes and bricks of $(2imes2imesn)$-board in three dimensions. After a short introduction and the definition of breakability we show a way to get the number of the tilings of an $n$-long board considering the $(n-1)$-long board. It describes recursively the number of possible breakable and unbreakable tilings. Finally, we give some identities for the recursions using breakability. The method of determining the recursions in space can be useful in mathematical education as well.

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