Faultfree Tromino Tilings of Rectangles

نویسندگان

  • Mridul Aanjaneya
  • Sudebkumar Prasant Pal
چکیده

In this paper we consider faultfree tromino tilings of rectangles and characterize rectangles that admit such tilings. We introduce the notion of crossing numbers for tilings and derive bounds on the crossing numbers of faultfree tilings. We develop an iterative scheme for generating faultfree tromino tilings for rectangles and derive the closed form expression for the exact number of faultfree tromino tilings for 4 × 3t rectangles and the exact generating function for 5 × 3t rectangles, t ≥ 1. Our iterative scheme generalizes to arbitrary rectangles; for 6 × 6t and 7 × 6t rectangles, t ≥ 1, we derive generating functions for estimating lower bounds on the number of faultfree tilings. We also derive an upper bound on the number of tromino tilings of an m × n rectangle, where 3|mn and m,n > 0.

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تاریخ انتشار 2006