Existence of strongly aperiodic monotiles

Determine whether there exists a strongly aperiodic monotile—either in geometric tilings of Euclidean spaces under the isometry group or in group-tiling settings—such that every tiling by the monotile has trivial stabilizer (no nontrivial symmetry).

Background

The paper’s constructions (e.g., the Roach in Γ and the Hat-derived tilings) achieve mild aperiodicity, with possible residual symmetries such as 3-fold rotations. Achieving strong aperiodicity would require eliminating all nontrivial symmetries in every tiling by a single tile.

Despite significant progress on aperiodic monotiles in various settings, the authors emphasize that no strongly aperiodic monotile is currently known, whether in geometric tilings or group-tiling frameworks, making the existence problem fundamental and unresolved.

References

it is surprising to notice that strongly aperiodic monotiles are unknown in all settings, including both the geometric and the group settings.

Aperiodic monotiles: from geometry to groups  (2409.15880 - Coulbois et al., 2024) in Conclusion