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An algorithm for deciding if a polyomino tiles the plane

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2007

Ian Gambini and
Laurent Vuillon
Ian Gambini
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Marseille, CNRS UMR 6166, Université de la Méditerranée, 163 avenue de Luminy - Case 901, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France; Ian.Gambini@lif.univ-mrs.fr
Laurent Vuillon
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Mathématiques, CNRS UMR 5127, Université de Savoie, 73376, le Bourget-du-Lac, France; Laurent.Vuillon@univ-savoie.fr
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Abstract

For polyominoes coded by their boundary word, we describe a quadratic O(n2) algorithm in the boundary length n which improves the naive O(n4) algorithm. Techniques used emanate from algorithmics, discrete geometry and combinatorics on words.

Keywords

Polyominoestiling the plane by translationtheorem of Beauquier-Nivatpseudo-squarepseudo-hexagonenumeration of special classes of polyominoes

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Research Article
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RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , April 2007, pp. 147 - 155
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© EDP Sciences, 2007

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