New York Journal of Mathematics
Volume 11 (2005) 445-456

  

John P. Steinberger

Multiple tilings of Z with long periods, and tiles with many-generated level semigroups


Published: September 22, 2005
Keywords: tilings, level semigroups, weight semigroups, multiple tilings, period, periods, periodicity
Subject: 11B13, 05B45

Abstract
We consider multiple tilings of Z by translates of a finite multiset A of integers (called a tile). We say that a set of integers T is an A-tiling of level d if each integer can be written in exactly d ways as the sum of an element of T and an element of A. We find new exponential lower bounds on the longest period of A-tiling as a function of the diameter of A, which rejoin the exponential upper bounds given by Ruzsa (preprint, 2002) and Kolountzakis (2003). We also show the existence of tiles whose level semigroups have arbitrarily many generators (where the level semigroup of a tile A is the set of integers d such that A admits a tiling of level d).

Author information

Department of Mathematics, UC Davis
jpsteinb@math.ucdavis.edu
http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~jpsteinb/index.html