Tiling the plane with equilateral triangles

MaRDI QIDQ5197780zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors János Pach, Gábor Tardos

Publication date 19 September 2019

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08840

zbMATH Keywords

Euclidean planeincongruent equilateral trianglesrecurrent random walktiling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random walks on graphs (05C81) Tilings in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C20) Rigidity and flexibility of structures (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C25) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50)

Abstract: Let $calT$ be a tiling of the plane with equilateral triangles no two of which share a side. We prove that if the side lengths of the triangles are bounded from below by a positive constant, then $calT$ is periodic and it consists of translates of only at most three different triangles. As a corollary, we prove a theorem of Scherer and answer a question of Nandakumar. The same result has been obtained independently by Richter and Wirth.

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