Inflations of self-affine tilings are integral algebraic Perron (Q2630284)

The paper under review deals with {self-affine tilings} of \(\mathbb R^d\). It continues studying the problem posed by W. Thurston and developed by R. Kenyon and B. Solomyak and aims to characterize expanding linear maps \(\mathbb R^d\to\mathbb R^d\) which may generate self-affine tilings, see [\textit{R. Kenyon} and \textit{B. Solomyak}, Discrete Comput. Geom. 43, No. 3, 577--593 (2010; Zbl 1200.52012); \textit{R. Kenyon}, Geom. Funct. Anal. 6, No. 3, 471--488 (1996; Zbl 0866.52014); \textit{W. Thurston}, Groups, tilings and finite state automata. Peking: Geometry Computing Group, Univ. of Tsinghua (1989); \textit{D. A. Lind}, Ergodic Theory Dyn. Syst. 4, 283--300 (1984; Zbl 0546.58035)]. Inspired by previous results of Thurston (for \(d=2\)) [loc. cit.], Lind (for \(d=1\)) [loc. cit.], Kenyon and Solomyak [loc. cit.] (for diagonalizable maps), the author introduces two particular families of linear maps \(\mathbb R^d\to\mathbb R^d\), which are called {integral algebraic maps} and {Perron maps} respectively, and proves that if an expanding linear map \(\mathbb R^d\to\mathbb R^d\) is tiling-borne then it is both integral algebraic and Perron. It is conjectured that the proved necessary condition is sufficient in the sense that if an expanding linear map \(\varphi: \mathbb R^d\to\mathbb R^d\) is integral algebraic and Perron, then for some \(n\in\mathbb N\) there exists a \(\varphi^n\)-self-affine tiling of \(\mathbb R^d\).