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Complexity as a homeomorphism invariant for tiling spaces

Dynamical Systems 2014-01-09 v2

Abstract

It is proved that whenever two aperiodic repetitive tilings with finite local complexity have homeomorphic tiling spaces, their associated complexity functions are asymptotically equivalent in a certain sense (which implies, if the complexity is polynomial, that the exponent of the leading term is preserved by homeomorphism). This theorem can be reworded in terms of dd-dimensional infinite words: if two Zd\mathbb{Z}^d-subshifts (with the same conditions as above) are flow equivalent, their complexity functions are equivalent. An analogue theorem is proved for the repetitivity function, which is a quantitative measure of the recurrence of orbits in the tiling space. How this result relates to the theory of tilings deformations is outlined in the last part.

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@article{arxiv.1212.1320,
  title  = {Complexity as a homeomorphism invariant for tiling spaces},
  author = {Antoine Julien},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.1320},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

Added a the result on the repetitivity function; rearranged some parts of the article; corrected a few minor mistakes. What was previously the last part was shrunk to an outlook. Links to deformations, groupoids and groupoid cohomology will be fully addressed in a future paper

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