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Computability of tilings
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Computability of tilings

Gregory Lafitte et Michael Weiss
Fifth Ifip International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science - Tcs 2008: Ifip 20th World Computer Congress, Tc 1, Foundations of Computer Science, Vol.273, p.187-201
International Federation for Information Processing
01/01/2008

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Computer Science Computer Science, Theory & Methods Science & Technology Technology
Wang tiles are unit size squares with colored edges. To know whether a given finite set of Wang tiles can tile the plane while respecting colors on edges is undecidable. Robinson's tiling is an auto-similar tiling in which the computation of a Turing machine can be carried out. By using this construction and by considering a strong notion of simulation between tilings, we prove computability results for tilings. In particular, we prove theorems on tilings that are similar to Kleene's recursion theorems. Then we define and show how to construct reductions between sets of tile sets. We generalize this construction to be able to transform a tile set with a given recursively enumerable property into a tile set with another property. These reductions lead naturally to a Rice-like theorem for tilings.

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