Indecomposable coverings with homothetic polygons

Abstract

We prove that for any convex polygon S with at least four sides, or a concave one with no parallel sides, and any m>0, there is an m-fold covering of the plane with homothetic copies of S that cannot be decomposed into two coverings.

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