A counterexample to the periodic tiling conjecture (announcement)

Publication date: 17 September 2022

Abstract: The periodic tiling conjecture asserts that any finite subset of a lattice

m a t h b b Z^{d}

which tiles that lattice by translations, in fact tiles periodically. We announce here a disproof of this conjecture for sufficiently large

d

, which also implies a disproof of the corresponding conjecture for Euclidean spaces

m a t h b b R^{d}

. In fact, we also obtain a counterexample in a group of the form

m a t h b b Z^{2} i m e s G_{0}

for some finite abelian

G_{0}

. Our methods rely on encoding a certain class of "

p

-adically structured functions" in terms of certain functional equations.

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