• DocumentCode
    2529663
  • Title

    Algorithms to tile the infinite grid with finite clusters

  • Author

    Szegedy, Mario

  • Author_Institution
    AT&T Bell Labs., Florham Park, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    8-11 Nov 1998
  • Firstpage
    137
  • Lastpage
    145
  • 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
  • Keywords
    computational geometry; decidability; decidability; finite clusters; finitely generated Abelian group; infinite grid; Books; Clustering algorithms; Computer science; Electrical capacitance tomography; Electronic switching systems; Lapping; Reflection; Tellurium; Tiles; Turing machines;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Foundations of Computer Science, 1998. Proceedings. 39th Annual Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Palo Alto, CA
  • ISSN
    0272-5428
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-9172-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SFCS.1998.743437
  • Filename
    743437