Title: Linear repetitivity in polytopal cut and project sets

Speaker: Henna Koivusalo (University of Bristol)

5 May, 2021 13:30 UTC

Abstract: Cut and project sets are aperiodic point patterns obtained by projecting an irrational slice of the integer lattice to a subspace. One way of classifying aperiodic sets is to study the number and repetition of finite patterns. From this perspective, sets with patterns repeating linearly often, called linearly repetitive sets, can be viewed as the most ordered aperiodic sets. Repetitivity of a cut and project set depends on the slope and shape of the irrational slice. The cross-section of the slice is known as the window. In earlier works, joint with subsets of {Haynes, Julien, Sadun, Walton}, we showed that many properties of cut and project sets with a cube window can be studied in the language of Diophantine approximation. For example, linear repetitivity holds if and only if the following two conditions are satisfied: (i) the cut and project set has minimal number of different finite patterns (minimal complexity), and (ii) the irrational slope satisfies a badly approximable condition. In a new joint work with Jamie Walton, we give a generalisation of this result to all polytopal windows satisfying a mild geometric condition. A key step in the proof is a decomposition of the cut and project scheme, which allows us to make sense of condition (ii) for general polytopal windows. The talk will cover motivation and history of studying cut and project sets, showcase a series of results on their repetitivity properties highlighting the number theory connections, and finish with the new results which move beyond Diophantine approximation.

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