Abstract
Suppose that \(R^{\alpha }\) is a rhombus with side length 1 and with the acute angle \(\alpha \). Let \(\{S_{i}\}\) be a collection of squares. A tight lower bound of the sum of the areas of squares from \(\{S_{i}\}\) that permit a parallel covering of \(R^{\alpha }\) is given.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
H.L. Abbott, M. Katchalski, Covering squares with squares. Discrete Comput. Geom. 24, 151–169 (2000)
P. Erdős, Squares in a square. Geombinatorics IV, 110–114 (1995)
G. Fejes Tóth and W. Kuperberg, Packing and covering with convex sets, in Handbook of Convex Geometry, pp. 799–860 (1993)
Z. Füredi, Covring a triangle with homothetic copies. Discrete Geom. Monoger. Textb. Pure Appl. Math. 253, 434–445 (2003)
H. Groemer, Coverings and packings by sequences of convex sets. Discrete Geom. Convexity 440, 262–278 (1985)
J. Januszewski, Covering a triangle with sequences of its homothetic copies. Period. Math. Hung. 36, 183–189 (1998)
J. Januszewski, Translative covering by sequences of homothetic copies. Acta Math. Hung. 91, 337–342 (2001)
J. Januszewski, Covering by sequences of squares. Stud. Sci. Math. Hung. 39, 179–188 (2002)
J. Januszewski, Parallel packing and covering of an equilateral triangle with sequences of squares. Acta Math. Hung. 125, 249–260 (2009)
M. Lu, Z. Su, Parallel covering of isosceles triangles with squares. Acta Math. Hung. 155(2), 266–297 (2018)
J.W. Moon, L. Moser, Some packing and covering theorems. Colloq. Math. 17, 103–110 (1967)
C. Su, Z. Su, L. Yuan, Parallel packing and covering of an isosceles right triangle with sequences of squares. Ars Combin. 130, 3–16 (2017)
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Number 12171362) and the Doctoral Research Project of Tianjin Normal University (Grant Number 52XB2112).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Additional information
Publisher's Note
Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
Rights and permissions
Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.
About this article
Cite this article
Su, CY., Li, X. Parallel covering a rhombus with squares. Period Math Hung 88, 190–203 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10998-023-00547-0
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10998-023-00547-0