Local structure of karyon tilings (Q2153761)

The paper is devoted to karyon tilings of the torus \(\mathbb{T}^d\) of an arbitrary dimension \(d\). The prototypes of karyon tilings are the one-dimensional Fibonacci tilings and the two-dimensional fractal Rauzy tilings, described earlier by the author. The set of \(d+1\) vectors in \(\mathbb{R}^d\) is a star if any \(d-1\) its vectors are linearly independent and if the hyperplane determined by these \(d-1\) vectors separates the two remaining vectors. The star is one of the basic concepts in the construction of karyon tilings given in previous works of the author. In the paper under review, local properties of karyon tilings are studied. In particular, tilings of the torus are classified depending on polyhedral stars and ray stars, the connection between ray and polyhedral stars is established. Karyon tilings have applcations to multidimensional continued fractions.