Overlapping substitutions and tilings

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Main Authors: Akiyama, Shigeki, Nagai, Yasushi, Zhang, Shu-Qin
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author Akiyama, Shigeki
Nagai, Yasushi
Zhang, Shu-Qin
author_facet Akiyama, Shigeki
Nagai, Yasushi
Zhang, Shu-Qin
contents We generalize the notion of (geometric) substitution rule to obtain overlapping substitutions. Our motivating example is the substitution presented in Ziherl, Dotera and Bekku \cite{DBZ}, which features a substitution matrix with non-integer entries. We give the meaning of such a matrix by showing that the right Perron--Frobenius eigenvector encodes the patch frequency of the resulting tiling. The patch frequencies are shown to be uniformly convergent, implying that the corresponding dynamical system is uniquely ergodic. Under mild assumptions, we further prove that the associated expansion constant is always an algebraic integer. In general, overlapping substitutions may yield a patch with illegal (partial) overlaps of tiles, even if it is locally consistent. We provide a sufficient condition for an overlapping substitution to be consistent, ensuring that no such illegal tiles emerge. Finally, we construct many intriguing one-dimensional overlapping substitutions and present higher dimensional examples from Delone multi-sets with inflation symmetry.
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spellingShingle Overlapping substitutions and tilings
Akiyama, Shigeki
Nagai, Yasushi
Zhang, Shu-Qin
Combinatorics
Dynamical Systems
Number Theory
37B50, 52C23, 37A25, 05B45
We generalize the notion of (geometric) substitution rule to obtain overlapping substitutions. Our motivating example is the substitution presented in Ziherl, Dotera and Bekku \cite{DBZ}, which features a substitution matrix with non-integer entries. We give the meaning of such a matrix by showing that the right Perron--Frobenius eigenvector encodes the patch frequency of the resulting tiling. The patch frequencies are shown to be uniformly convergent, implying that the corresponding dynamical system is uniquely ergodic. Under mild assumptions, we further prove that the associated expansion constant is always an algebraic integer. In general, overlapping substitutions may yield a patch with illegal (partial) overlaps of tiles, even if it is locally consistent. We provide a sufficient condition for an overlapping substitution to be consistent, ensuring that no such illegal tiles emerge. Finally, we construct many intriguing one-dimensional overlapping substitutions and present higher dimensional examples from Delone multi-sets with inflation symmetry.
title Overlapping substitutions and tilings
topic Combinatorics
Dynamical Systems
Number Theory
37B50, 52C23, 37A25, 05B45
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18666