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A Counterexample to Nivat's Conjecture for a Non-Convex Window

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Precise statement

The paper constructs an exact cluster $F\subseteq\mathbb{Z}^2$ of cardinality 8 with full affine span and an $F$-tiling whose orbit closure contains no 1-periodic $F$-tiling, giving a non-degenerate counterexample to Nivat's conjecture for non-convex windows. This answers negatively a question of Kari and Moutot from 2023.

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What AI did

GPT-5 + Claude Opus 4

The paper's note on the use of AI credits the construction of Section 2 - the cluster and tiling that constitute the counterexample - to GPT-5, alongside use of Claude Opus 4.

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Verification boundary

unreviewed

No independent review. The object is an explicit finite cluster with an explicit tiling, so the construction can be checked directly. Preprint, not refereed.

Correctness: unknown · statement fidelity: unaudited · peer review: none

Timeline

  1. arXiv

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Known method families

construction (source-reported)

Source-reported tools: construction.

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