The 4-way deterministic Periodic Domino Problem is undecidable

The most fundamental undecidable question on tilings is the Domino Problem that asks whether a Wang tileset tiles the discrete plane. Lukkarila proved in 2009 that it remains undecidable when restricting the input to the class of 4-way deterministic tilesets. Due to the existence of aperiodic tilesets, the most natural distinct variant of this problem is the Periodic Domino Problem which asks whether a Wang tileset admits a periodic tiling of the plane. This problem is also undecidable. Jeandel recently discovered a new and elegant proof for this result. Inspired by this new proof technique and some ingredients from Lukkarila's construction, we prove that it remains undecidable when restricted to 4-way deterministic tilesets.

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Author Le Gloannec, Bastien
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Last Updated May 5, 2026, 12:36 (UTC)
Created May 5, 2026, 12:36 (UTC)
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