
doi: 10.37236/1644
handle: 10680/1347
In 1906 Axel Thue showed how to construct an infinite non-repetitive (or square-free) word on an alphabet of size 3. Since then this result has been rediscovered many times and extended in many ways. We present a two-dimensional version of this result. We show how to construct a rectangular tiling of the plane using 5 symbols which has the property that lines of tiles which are horizontal, vertical or have slope +1 or $-1$ contain no repetitions. As part of the construction we introduce a new type of word, one that is non-repetitive up to mod k, which is of interest in itself. We also indicate how our results might be extended to higher dimensions.
Combinatorial aspects of tessellation and tiling problems, Sequences and sets, Other designs, configurations, rectangular tiling of the plane
Combinatorial aspects of tessellation and tiling problems, Sequences and sets, Other designs, configurations, rectangular tiling of the plane
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