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When is a cut and project set substitutional?

Dynamical Systems 2025-12-16 v1 Combinatorics Number Theory

Abstract

Cut and project sets are obtained by projecting an irrational slice through a lattice to a lower dimensional subspace. Under standard conditions, the resulting pattern has no translational periods even though it retains some regularity of the lattice. Cut and project sets are one of the archetypical examples of patterns featuring aperiodic order, the other construction methods being by substitution and matching rules. Many early examples of aperiodic tilings, including the famous Penrose and Ammann--Beenker tilings, have a description from all of these methods. In this article we answer the following question, in the case of a Euclidean total space: what property of the cut and project data characterises when the resulting cut and project sets may also be defined by a substitution rule?

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@article{arxiv.2512.13659,
  title  = {When is a cut and project set substitutional?},
  author = {Edmund Harriss and Henna Koivusalo and James J. Walton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.13659},
  year   = {2025}
}

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55 pages, 4 figures

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