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About the domino problem in the hyperbolic plane from an algorithmicpoint of view

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2008

Maurice Margenstern
Maurice Margenstern*
Affiliation:
Université Paul Verlaine - Metz, IUT de Metz; margens@univ-metz.fr
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Abstract

This paper is a contribution to the general tiling problem for the hyperbolic plane. It is an intermediary result between the result obtained by R. Robinson [Invent. Math.44 (1978) 259–264] and the conjecture that the problem is undecidable.

Keywords

Tilingstiling problemhyperbolic planeorigin-constrained problem
Type
Research Article
Information
RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications , Volume 42 , Issue 1: A nonstandard spirit among computer scientists:a tribute to Serge Grigorieff at the occasion of his 60th birthday , January 2008 , pp. 21 - 36
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© EDP Sciences, 2007

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