Tiling by rectangles and alternating current

M. V. Prasolov; Mikhail Skopenkov

doi:10.1016/j.jcta.2010.11.012

Tiling by rectangles and alternating current

M. V. Prasolov, Mikhail Skopenkov

Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

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This paper is on tilings of polygons by rectangles. A celebrated physical interpretation of such tilings by R.L. Brooks, C.A.B. Smith, A.H. Stone and W.T. Tutte uses direct-current circuits. The new approach of this paper is an application of alternating-current circuits. The following results are obtained: •a necessary condition for a rectangle to be tilable by rectangles of given shapes;•a criterion for a rectangle to be tilable by rectangles similar to it but not all homothetic to it;•a criterion for a "generic" polygon to be tilable by squares. These results generalize those of C. Freiling, R. Kenyon, M. Laczkovich, D. Rinne, and G. Szekeres. © 2010 Elsevier Inc.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	920-937
Number of pages	18
Journal	Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
Volume	118
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcta.2010.11.012
State	Published - Apr 2011

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Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Theoretical Computer Science

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