Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4653492 European Journal of Combinatorics 2014 15 Pages PDF
Abstract

Does a given set of polyominoes tile some rectangle? We show that this problem is undecidable. In a different direction, we also consider tiling a cofinite subset of the plane. The tileability is undecidable for many variants of this problem. However, we present an algorithm for testing whether the complement of a finite region is tileable by a set of rectangles.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
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