On the connectivity of spaces of three-dimensional domino tilings

DOI10.1090/TRAN/8532zbMATH Open1483.05019arXiv1702.00798OpenAlexW4206114233MaRDI QIDQ5036092FDOQ5036092

Authors: Juliana Freire, Pedro H. Milet, Nicolau C. Saldanha, Caroline Klivans 

Publication date: 23 February 2022

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider domino tilings of three-dimensional cubiculated manifolds with or without boundary, including subsets of Euclidean space and three-dimensional tori. In particular, we are interested in the connected components of the space of tilings of such regions under local moves. Building on the work of the third and fourth authors, we allow two possible local moves, the flip and trit. These moves are considered with respect to two topological invariants, the twist and flux. Our main result proves that, up to refinement: Two tilings are connected by flips and trits if and only if they have the same flux. Two tilings are connected by flips alone if and only if they have the same flux and twist.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.00798

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zbMATH Keywords

flipfluxtwisttritconnectivity of the space of tilings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of tessellation and tiling problems (05B45) Edge subsets with special properties (factorization, matching, partitioning, covering and packing, etc.) (05C70) Tilings in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C20) Tilings in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C22)

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