The complexity of generalized domino tilings

Igor Pak; Jed Yang

doi:10.37236/2554

The complexity of generalized domino tilings

Igor Pak, Jed Yang

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Abstract

Tiling planar regions with dominoes is a classical problem in which the decision and counting problems are polynomial. We prove a variety of hardness results (both NP- and #P-completeness) for different generalizations of dominoes in three and higher dimensions.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
Volume	20
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.37236/2554
State	Published - Oct 28 2013

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Complexity
Dominoes
Tilings

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