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Critical connectedness of thin arithmetical discrete planes
An arithmetical discrete plane is said to have critical connecting thickness
if its thickness is equal to the infimum of the set of values that preserve its
-connectedness. This infimum thickness can be computed thanks to the fully
subtractive algorithm. This multidimensional continued fraction algorithm
consists, in its linear form, in subtracting the smallest entry to the other
ones. We provide a characterization of the discrete planes with critical
thickness that have zero intercept and that are -connected. Our tools rely
on the notion of dual substitution which is a geometric version of the usual
notion of substitution acting on words. We associate with the fully subtractive
algorithm a set of substitutions whose incidence matrix is provided by the
matrices of the algorithm, and prove that their geometric counterparts generate
arithmetic discrete planes.Comment: 18 pages, v2 includes several corrections and is a long version of
the DGCI extended abstrac
On the connecting thickness of arithmetical discrete planes
International audienceWhile connected rational arithmetical discrete lines and connected rational arithmetical discrete planes are entirely characterized, only partial results exist for the irrational arithmetical discrete planes. In the present paper, we focus on the connectedness of irrational arithmetical discrete planes, namely the arithmetical discrete planes with a normal vector of which the coordinates are not Q-linear dependent. Given v in R^3, we compute the lower bound of the thicknesses 2-connecting the arithmetical discrete planes with normal vector v. In particular, we show how the translation parameter operates in the connectedness of the arithmetical discrete planes