OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
A tatami tiling consists of dimers (1 X 2) and monomers (1 X 1) where no four meet at a point.
There are at most n * (n - 1) / 2 horizontal dimers in any tiling of an n X n square with n monomers.
If there are floor(n * (n - 1) / 4) horizontal dimers, the numbers of horizontal dimers and vertical dimers differ by at most one.
LINKS
A. Erickson, F. Ruskey, M. Schurch and J. Woodcock, Monomer-Dimer Tatami Tilings of Rectangular Regions, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 18(1) (2011) P109, 24 pages.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,more
AUTHOR
Frank Ruskey and Yuji Yamauchi (eugene.uti(AT)gmail.com), Jul 15 2011
STATUS
approved