scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1366151

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A self-affine tile is a tile (i.e., in this paper, quite generally, a compact set with nonempty interior) \( T \in {\mathbb R}^n \) such that \( A(T) = \Cup_{d \in D} (T+d) \) where~\(A\) is an expanding matrix, and the digit set \(D\) often is a subset of the integer lattice. This paper is concerned with the geometric properties of such tiles (and not with conditions which describe when \(T\) admits a tiling). The authors show that the boundary is also a (graph-directed) self-affine set (whose components are related to the faces of the corresponding tiling). For self-similar tiles (\(A\)~defines a similarity), they compute the (Hausdorff) dimension of its boundary (in terms of the spectral radius of the substitution matrix of the boundary), and, in addition, describe an algorithmic solution. As examples, the twin dragon and (using some generalizations on multitiles) the Levy dragon (yielding a simplified computation of its dimension) are discussed. Moreover, they investigate the convex hull of \(T\) (assuming only that it is non-empty compact), give necessary and sufficient conditions for it to be a polytope, (via the study of its Gauss map), and (for \(n=2\)) derive a formula for its perimeter. [This is the first of a two parts paper; see also the subsequent review].




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