Combinatorics · Oct 6, 2026
A counterexample to periodic tiling in dimension three
Constructs a finite translational tile in ℤ3 that tiles space but admits no fully periodic tiling, disproving the periodic tiling conjecture in the smallest possible lattice dimension. Its unit-cube thickening gives the same counterexample in ℝ3, even with arbitrary real translation vectors.
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