Word-Representability of Triangulations of Rectangular Polyomino with a Single Domino Tile

Marc Glen1, Sergey Kitaevt2
1School of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1HX, UK.
2School of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Gi 1HX, UK.

Abstract

A graph \( G = (V, E) \) is word-representable if there exists a word \( w \) over the alphabet \( V \) such that letters \( x \) and \( y \) alternate in \( w \) if and only if \( (x, y) \) is an edge in \( E \).

A recent elegant result of Akrobotu \( et \, al. \) \([1]\) states that a triangulation of any convex polyomino is word-representable if and only if it is 3-colourable. In this paper, we generalize a particular case of this result by showing that the result of Akrobotu \( et \, al. \) \([1]\) is true even if we allow a domino tile, instead of having just \(1 \times 1\) tiles on a rectangular polyomino.

Keywords: word-representability, polyomino, triangulation, domino