Structure factor of substitutional sequences (Q2277001)

The authors study the structure factors for substitutional sequences on a two-letter alphabet. They give a unified treatment, proving that the peaks in the structure factor of such a sequence can be grouped into classes such that all elments of a given class scale with L (size of the system) with the same exponent \(\alpha\). Moreover they show how to determine (algorithmically) the values of \(\omega\) when there are peaks belonging to a given class, how to compute the scaling exponent \(\alpha\), and they characterize the peaks with \(\alpha =2\). In the case when the substitution has constant length, the computations are quite easy.