Abstract
A tromino tiling problem is a packing puzzle where we are given a region of connected lattice squares and we want to decide whether there exists a tiling of the region using trominoes with the shape of an L. In this work we study a slight variation of the tromino tiling problem where some positions of the region have pegs and each tromino comes with a hole that can only be placed on top of the pegs. We present a characterization of this tiling problem with pegs using flow networks and show that (i) there exists a linear-time parsimonious reduction to the maximum-flow problem, and (ii) counting the number of such tilings can be done in linear-time. The proofs of both results contain algorithms that can then be used to decide the tiling of a region with pegs in O(n) time.
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