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Rational self-affine tiles
An integral self-affine tile is the solution of a set equation , where
is an integer matrix and is a finite
subset of . In the recent decades, these objects and the induced
tilings have been studied systematically. We extend this theory to matrices
. We define rational self-affine tiles
as compact subsets of the open subring of the ad\'ele ring , where the factors of the
(finite) product are certain -adic completions of a number field
that is defined in terms of the characteristic polynomial of .
Employing methods from classical algebraic number theory, Fourier analysis in
number fields, and results on zero sets of transfer operators, we establish a
general tiling theorem for these tiles. We also associate a second kind of
tiles with a rational matrix. These tiles are defined as the intersection of a
(translation of a) rational self-affine tile with . Although these intersection
tiles have a complicated structure and are no longer self-affine, we are able
to prove a tiling theorem for these tiles as well. For particular choices of
digit sets, intersection tiles are instances of tiles defined in terms of shift
radix systems and canonical number systems. Therefore, we gain new results for
tilings associated with numeration systems
The geometry of non-unit Pisot substitutions
Let be a non-unit Pisot substitution and let be the
associated Pisot number. It is known that one can associate certain fractal
tiles, so-called \emph{Rauzy fractals}, with . In our setting, these
fractals are subsets of a certain open subring of the ad\`ele ring
. We present several approaches on how to
define Rauzy fractals and discuss the relations between them. In particular, we
consider Rauzy fractals as the natural geometric objects of certain numeration
systems, define them in terms of the one-dimensional realization of
and its dual (in the spirit of Arnoux and Ito), and view them as the dual of
multi-component model sets for particular cut and project schemes. We also
define stepped surfaces suited for non-unit Pisot substitutions. We provide
basic topological and geometric properties of Rauzy fractals associated with
non-unit Pisot substitutions, prove some tiling results for them, and provide
relations to subshifts defined in terms of the periodic points of , to
adic transformations, and a domain exchange. We illustrate our results by
examples on two and three letter substitutions.Comment: 29 page
Shift Radix Systems - A Survey
Let be an integer and . The {\em shift radix system} is defined by has the {\em finiteness
property} if each is eventually mapped to
under iterations of . In the present survey we summarize
results on these nearly linear mappings. We discuss how these mappings are
related to well-known numeration systems, to rotations with round-offs, and to
a conjecture on periodic expansions w.r.t.\ Salem numbers. Moreover, we review
the behavior of the orbits of points under iterations of with
special emphasis on ultimately periodic orbits and on the finiteness property.
We also describe a geometric theory related to shift radix systems.Comment: 45 pages, 16 figure
Self-affine Manifolds
This paper studies closed 3-manifolds which are the attractors of a system of
finitely many affine contractions that tile . Such attractors are
called self-affine tiles. Effective characterization and recognition theorems
for these 3-manifolds as well as theoretical generalizations of these results
to higher dimensions are established. The methods developed build a bridge
linking geometric topology with iterated function systems and their attractors.
A method to model self-affine tiles by simple iterative systems is developed
in order to study their topology. The model is functorial in the sense that
there is an easily computable map that induces isomorphisms between the natural
subdivisions of the attractor of the model and the self-affine tile. It has
many beneficial qualities including ease of computation allowing one to
determine topological properties of the attractor of the model such as
connectedness and whether it is a manifold. The induced map between the
attractor of the model and the self-affine tile is a quotient map and can be
checked in certain cases to be monotone or cell-like. Deep theorems from
geometric topology are applied to characterize and develop algorithms to
recognize when a self-affine tile is a topological or generalized manifold in
all dimensions. These new tools are used to check that several self-affine
tiles in the literature are 3-balls. An example of a wild 3-dimensional
self-affine tile is given whose boundary is a topological 2-sphere but which is
not itself a 3-ball. The paper describes how any 3-dimensional handlebody can
be given the structure of a self-affine 3-manifold. It is conjectured that
every self-affine tile which is a manifold is a handlebody.Comment: 40 pages, 13 figures, 2 table
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