On monohedral tilings of a regular polygon

Abstract

A tiling of a topological disc by topological discs is called monohedral if all tiles are congruent. Maltby (J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 66: 40-52, 1994) characterized the monohedral tilings of a square by three topological discs. Kurusa, Lángi and V\'ıgh (Mediterr. J. Math. 17: article number 156, 2020) characterized the monohedral tilings of a circular disc by three topological discs. The aim of this note is to connect these two results by characterizing the monohedral tilings of any regular $n$-gon with at most three tiles for any $n\ge 5$.

18 pages, 9 figures