Connectedness of fractals associated with Arnoux-Rauzy substitutions

DOI10.1051/ITA/2014008MaRDI QIDQ2874636zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Valérie Berthé, Timo Jolivet, Anne Siegel

Publication date 8 August 2014

Published in RAIRO. Theoretical Informatics and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.1784

zbMATH Keywords

combinatorics on wordsRauzy fractalthree-letter substitutionsunimodular Pisot irreducible substitution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symbolic dynamics (37B10) Combinatorics on words (68R15)

Abstract: Rauzy fractals are compact sets with fractal boundary that can be associated with any unimodular Pisot irreducible substitution. These fractals can be defined as the Hausdorff limit of a sequence of compact sets, where each set is a renormalized projection of a finite union of faces of unit cubes. We exploit this combinatorial definition to prove the connectedness of the Rauzy fractal associated with any finite product of three-letter Arnoux-Rauzy substitutions.

Review text

It is know from the work of \textit{P. Arnoux} and \textit{S. Ito} [Bull. Belg. Math. Soc. - Simon Stevin 8, No. 2, 181--207 (2001; Zbl 1007.37001)] that for every Pisot irreducible substitution on a finite set of letters one can associate a Rauzy fractal, that is, a certain compact set having fractal boundary. In the present paper the authors prove that the Rauzy fractal associated with finite products of three-letter Arnoux-Rauzy substitutions is a connected set. The proof is based on a combinatorial characterization of Rauzy fractals due to Arnoux and Ito [loc. cit.]. The paper ends with a section on further questions and the presentation of some counterexamples.

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