English

Classification of tile digit sets as product-forms

Combinatorics 2013-05-03 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

Let AA be an expanding matrix on Rs{\Bbb R}^s with integral entries. A fundamental question in the fractal tiling theory is to understand the structure of the digit set DZs{\mathcal D}\subset{\Bbb Z}^s so that the integral self-affine set T(A,D)T(A,\mathcal D) is a translational tile on Rs{\Bbb R}^s. In our previous paper, we classified such tile digit sets DZ{\mathcal D}\subset{\Bbb Z} by expressing the mask polynomial PDP_{\mathcal D} into product of cyclotomic polynomials. In this paper, we first show that a tile digit set in Zs{\Bbb Z}^s must be an integer tile (i.e. DL=Zs{\mathcal D}\oplus{\mathcal L} = {\Bbb Z}^s for some discrete set L{\mathcal L}). This allows us to combine the technique of Coven and Meyerowitz on integer tiling on R1{\Bbb R}^1 together with our previous results to characterize explicitly all tile digit sets DZ{\mathcal D}\subset {\Bbb Z} with A=pαqA = p^{\alpha}q (p,qp, q distinct primes) as {\it modulo product-form} of some order, an advance of the previously known results for A=pαA = p^\alpha and pqpq.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1305.0202,
  title  = {Classification of tile digit sets as product-forms},
  author = {Chun-Kit Lai and Ka-Sing Lau and Hui Rao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.0202},
  year   = {2013}
}
R2 v1 2026-06-22T00:09:39.135Z