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Re:Which hypercube unfoldings tile space? by Y_Y on Monday May 17, 2021 @03:48AM (#27180972)
So it turns out to be all 261 of them? Suspicious.
Re:Which hypercube unfoldings tile space? by pdpi on Monday May 17, 2021 @06:44AM (#27182036)
Why is it suspicious? "All of them" is a common enough answer to interesting maths problems.
Re:Which hypercube unfoldings tile space? by NeoTar on Monday May 17, 2021 @05:56AM (#27181694)
Yes; I wonder if the same result applies in even higher dimensions? Do all nets of the 5-cube tile 4-space, etc.

There is a proof on WHUTS that all 261 nets of the 4-cube can, but is a proof by exhaustion (i.e. try every net in an automated manner and see if it is possible), this may be possible to do for the 5-cube nets (9694 possibilities), and 6-cube nets (502110 possibilities), but starts to look difficult in higher dimensions.

Re:Which hypercube unfoldings tile space? by NeoTar on Monday May 17, 2021 @07:56AM (#27182455)
It appears that someone has posted this as a MO question: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/392890/which-unfoldings-o...

As of yet (17.05.2021) there is not an accepted answer.

Re:Which hypercube unfoldings tile space? by Y_Y on Monday May 17, 2021 @08:58AM (#27182883)
It would be really nice if we could see a reason (and hence generic proof) why this works. Even more so if you could say why (or why not) the n-cube's (n-1) nets can tile R^(n-1).

I'd like to set a notification for when some hero of future-geometry solves this in ten years.

Re:Which hypercube unfoldings tile space? by flaubere on Monday May 17, 2021 @07:08AM (#27182153)
Do all the 2-nets of the 3-cube tile the plane?
Re:Which hypercube unfoldings tile space? by NeoTar on Monday May 17, 2021 @07:40AM (#27182356)
They do!

I haven't been able to find a good diagram of it in a few minutes of searching, but there is a video at: https://etudes.ru/etudes/cubic-parquet/

I can imagine it might be a fun task for a school maths class to try and find all the tilings; you can find the nets of the cube here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_(polyhedron)#/media/File:T...