Signed tilings with squares

DOI10.1006/JCTA.1998.2902MaRDI QIDQ1279658zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kevin Keating, Jonathan L. King

Publication date 17 February 1999

Published in Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jcta.1998.2902

zbMATH Keywords

tilings with squares

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

Necessary and sufficient conditions are derived in order for a bounded region consisting of finitely many (positive) rectangles in the Cartesian plane to be tilable with finitely many positive and negative squares. This nice result is obtained in a very elegant way.

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Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3128853 (Why is no real title available?)
• Shape tiling
• Slicings of \(n\)-dimensional parallelepipeds
• Tiling a square with similar rectangles
• Tiling with Squares and Anti-Squares

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• Signed shape tilings of squares
• Tiling by rectangles and alternating current
• Signed polyomino tilings by n-in-line polyominoes and Gröbner bases
• POSSIBILITIES AND IMPOSSIBILITIES IN SQUARE-TILING

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