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Dissecting a square into congruent polygons

Hui Rao, Lei Ren, Yang Wang
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January 13, 2020
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May 25, 2020
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June 29, 2020
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March 31, 2025
Volume 22
vol. 22:1
Combinatorics
DOI
10.23638/DMTCS-22-1-21
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Dissecting a square into congruent polygons

Hui Rao, Lei Ren, Yang Wang
Abstract
We study the dissection of a square into congruent convex polygons. Yuan \emph{et al.} [Dissecting the square into five congruent parts, Discrete Math. \textbf{339} (2016) 288-298] asked whether, if the number of tiles is a prime number $\geq 3$, it is true that the tile must be a rectangle. We conjecture that the same conclusion still holds even if the number of tiles is an odd number $\geq 3$. Our conjecture has been confirmed for triangles in earlier works. We prove that the conjecture holds if either the tile is a convex $q$-gon with $q\geq 6$ or it is a right-angle trapezoid. Comment: 19 pages, 11 figure
Keywords
  • Mathematics - Combinatorics
  • 52B45, 05C45
Mathematics Subject Classification 2020
  • 05B45 - Combinatorial aspects of tessellation and tiling problems
  • 05C45 - Eulerian and Hamiltonian graphs
  • 52C20 - Tilings in \(2\) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry)
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