Tiling a Plane with Semi-Regular Equilateral Polygons with 2m-Sides

• 作者: Nenad Stojanovic
• 来源期刊: 离散数学期刊(英文)
• 学科: 工学
• 关键词: Tiling a Plane Semi-Regular Plane Tiling Diophantine Equations
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（1）
• 页码范围: 13-30
• 页数: 18页
• 分类号: TK1

摘要

<p align="justify"> <span style="font-family:Verdana;">In this paper, tiling a plane with equilateral semi-regular convex polygons is considered, and, that is, tiling with equilateral polygons of</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> the same type. Tiling a plane with semi-regular polygons depends not only on the type of a semi-regular polygon, but also on its interior angles that join at a node. In relation to the interior angles, semi-regular equilateral polygons with the same or different interior angles can be joined in the nodes. Here, we shall first consider tiling a plane with semi-regular equilateral polygons with 2m-sides. The analysis is performed by determining the set of all integer solutions of the corresponding Diophantine equation in the form of <img alt="" src="Edit_c185b1c4-6b78-4af5-b1c2-4932af77bf65.png" />, where<img alt="" src="Edit_2e6548d5-3254-4005-b19e-9d49cd5d6f81.png" />are the non-negative integers which are not equal to zero at the same time, and <img alt="" src="Edit_a6dbde8a-5f3a-43d4-bc89-27dcc3057d23.png" />are the interior angles of a semi-regular equilateral polygon from the characteristic angle. It is shown that of all semi-regular equilateral polygons with 2m-sides, a plane can be tiled only with the semi-regular equilateral quadrilaterals and semi-regular equilateral hexagons. Then, the problem of tiling a plane with semi-regular equilateral quadrilaterals is analyzed in detail, and then the one with semi-regular equilateral hexagons. For these semi-regular polygons, all possible solutions of the corresponding Diophantine equations were analyzed and all nodes were determined, and then the problem for different values of characteristic elements was observed. For some of the observed cases of tiling a plane with these semi-regular polygons, some graphical presentations of tiling constructions are also given.</span> </p>