Towards Strongly Aperiodic Monotiles in Higher Dimensions

Abstract

The discovery of Chair44 (Tsiokos, 2026) settled the three-dimensional einstein problem with a strongly aperiodic polyhedral monotile in $\mathbb{R}^3$. This note extends the underlying mechanism---the rep-$2^N$ chair $C_N = [0,2]^N \setminus (1,2]^N$ with corner/socket markings---to $\mathbb{R}^N$. Besides expository material (the rep-$2^N$ dissection and a conditional strong-aperiodicity theorem under lattice registration and hierarchical enforcement), the note makes a new computational contribution. We introduce a frame-marking formalism in which the marking of a tile is its full orientation frame and the matching rule is the contact language generated by the substitution itself; this makes the search for matching rules finite in every dimension. We give a finite certificate (coarsening closure, tightness, and a two-shell enclosure analysis) whose validity implies that every lattice-registered tiling by the marked tile is uniquely hierarchical, hence strongly aperiodic. For $N=3$ the certificate passes: it yields explicit facet matching rules on the 24 panels of $C_3$ (135 admissible facet-contact triples) and reproduces, from first principles and independently of published constructions, the Chair44 statistics 2388 $\to$ 44 admissible contacts (30 occurring), 33 one-shell clusters, 15 extendable, each forcing a unique supertile. Among the 2187 homochiral frame assignments of the 3D substitution with a translated central child, the certified one is unique up to conjugation. For $N=4$ the same pipeline is run on several structured families of frame assignments (canonical, $D_4$-, $Z_2\times Z_2$- and $Z_4$-symmetric, and a lift of the 3D solution); none is coarsening-closed, and we report the failure data. A self-similar marking of $C_4$ thus remains an explicitly finite, open computational problem, which we state precisely. Code: https://github.com/dimkadimon/Monotile-RN

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