Title
Tiling the plane with permutations
Abstract
A permutomino is a polyomino uniquely determined by a pair of permutations. Recently permutominoes, and in particular convex permutominoes have been studied by several authors concerning their analytical and bijective enumeration, tomographical reconstruction, and the algebraic characterization of the associated permutations [2,3]. On the other side, Beauquier and Nivat [5] introduced and gave a characterization of the class of pseudo-square polyominoes, i.e. polyominoes that tile the plane by translation: a polyomino is called pseudo-square if its boundary word may be factorized as XY X Y. In this paper we consider the pseudo-square polyominoes which are also convex permutominoes. By using the Beauquier-Nivat characterization we provide some geometrical and combinatorial properties of such objects, and we show for any fixed X, each word Y such that XY X Y is pseudo-square is prefix of an infinite word Y∞ with period 4 |X|N|X|E. Some conjectures obtained through exhaustive search are also presented and discussed in the final section.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-19867-0_32
DGCI
Keywords
Field
DocType
beauquier-nivat characterization,boundary word,xy x y.,convex permutominoes,pseudo-square polyominoes,particular convex permutominoes,infinite word y,fixed x,xy x y,algebraic characterization,tomographic reconstruction,exhaustive search
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Bijection,Algebraic number,Brute-force search,Polyomino,Permutation,Regular polygon,Prefix,Schubert variety,Mathematics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6607
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexandre Blondin Massé1248.82
Andrea Frosini210120.44
Simone Rinaldi317424.93
Laurent Vuillon418626.63