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Keller's cube-tiling conjecture is false in high dimensions

Author(s): Jeffrey C. Lagarias; Peter W. Shor
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1992), 279-283.
MSC (2000): Primary 52C22; Secondary 05B45
MathSciNet review: 1155280
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Abstract: O. H. Keller conjectured in 1930 that in any tiling of $ {\mathbb{R}^n}$ by unit n-cubes there exist two of them having a complete facet in common. O. Perron proved this conjecture for $ n \leq 6$. We show that for all $ n \geq 10$ there exists a tiling of $ {\mathbb{R}^n}$ by unit n-cubes such that no two n-cubes have a complete facet in common.


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Additional Information:

DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1992-00318-X
PII: S 0273-0979(1992)00318-X
Copyright of article: Copyright 1992, American Mathematical Society




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