Author_Institution :
AT&T Bell Labs., Florham Park, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We say that a subset T of Z2, the two dimensional infinite grid, tiles Z2 if we can cover Z2 with non-overlapping translates of T. No algorithm is known to decide whether a finite T⊆Z2 tiles Z2. Here we present two algorithms, one for the case when |T| is prime, and another for the case when |T|=4. Both algorithms generalize to the case, where we replace Z 2 with all arbitrary finitely generated Abelian group. As a by-product of our results we partially settle the Periodic Tiling Conjecture raised by J. Lagarias and Y. Wang (1997), and we also get the following generalization of a theorem of L.Redei (1965): Let G be a (finite or infinite) Abelian group G with a generator set T of prime cardinality such, that 0∈T, and there is a set T´⊆G with the property that for every g∈G there are unique t∈T, t´∈T´ such that g=t+t´. Then T´ can be replaced with a subgroup of G, that also has the above property