New results on tilings via cup products and Chern characters on tiling spaces

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Main Authors: Liu, Jianlong, Rosenberg, Jonathan, Treviño, Rodrigo
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author Liu, Jianlong
Rosenberg, Jonathan
Treviño, Rodrigo
author_facet Liu, Jianlong
Rosenberg, Jonathan
Treviño, Rodrigo
contents We study the cohomology rings of tiling spaces $Ω$ given by cubical substitutions. While there have been many calculations before of cohomology groups of such tiling spaces, the innovation here is that we use computer-assisted methods to compute the cup-product structure. This leads to examples of substitution tilings with isomorphic cohomology groups but different cohomology rings. Part of the interest in studying the cup product comes from Bellissard's gap-labeling conjecture, which is known to hold in dimensions $\le 3$, but where a proof is known in dimensions $\ge 4$ only when the Chern character from $K^0(Ω)$ to $H^*(Ω,\mathbb{Q})$ lands in $H^*(Ω,\mathbb{Z})$. Computation of the cup product on cohomology often makes it possible to compute the Chern character. We introduce a natural generalization of the gap-labeling conjecture, called the equivariant gap-labeling conjecture, which applies to tilings with a finite symmetry group. Again this holds in dimensions $\le 3$, but we are able to show that it fails in general in dimensions $\ge 4$. This, plus some of our cup product calculations, makes it plausible that the gap-labeling conjecture might fail in high dimensions.
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spellingShingle New results on tilings via cup products and Chern characters on tiling spaces
Liu, Jianlong
Rosenberg, Jonathan
Treviño, Rodrigo
Dynamical Systems
Algebraic Topology
K-Theory and Homology
37B52, 19L64, 55N45, 19L47
We study the cohomology rings of tiling spaces $Ω$ given by cubical substitutions. While there have been many calculations before of cohomology groups of such tiling spaces, the innovation here is that we use computer-assisted methods to compute the cup-product structure. This leads to examples of substitution tilings with isomorphic cohomology groups but different cohomology rings. Part of the interest in studying the cup product comes from Bellissard's gap-labeling conjecture, which is known to hold in dimensions $\le 3$, but where a proof is known in dimensions $\ge 4$ only when the Chern character from $K^0(Ω)$ to $H^*(Ω,\mathbb{Q})$ lands in $H^*(Ω,\mathbb{Z})$. Computation of the cup product on cohomology often makes it possible to compute the Chern character. We introduce a natural generalization of the gap-labeling conjecture, called the equivariant gap-labeling conjecture, which applies to tilings with a finite symmetry group. Again this holds in dimensions $\le 3$, but we are able to show that it fails in general in dimensions $\ge 4$. This, plus some of our cup product calculations, makes it plausible that the gap-labeling conjecture might fail in high dimensions.
title New results on tilings via cup products and Chern characters on tiling spaces
topic Dynamical Systems
Algebraic Topology
K-Theory and Homology
37B52, 19L64, 55N45, 19L47
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18789