The converse ideal-trapezoid tileability conjecture

Let ABCDABCD be an ideal trapezoid, and let (a,b,c)(a,b,c) be a triple of pairwise coprime integers satisfying

c2=a2+b2+ab.c^2=a^2+b^2+ab.

Write xx and yy for the side parameters of the ideal trapezoid as in the paper. Ideal-trapezoid tileability conjecture. The trapezoid ABCDABCD can be tiled by (a,b,c)(a,b,c) if and only if

x>c2abx>c^2-a-b

and

aby.ab\mid y.

The paper presents this as the converse to an earlier sufficient tileability proposition. Proving it is identified as an intermediate step toward the equilateral divisibility conjecture; necessity is not established in the supplied text.

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Primary source

Yan X Zhang, “Tiling Triangles with 2π/3 Angles”, arXiv:2512.22696 (2026).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2503.16641.

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