Local Complexity of Delone Sets and Crystallinity

DOI10.4153/CMB-2002-058-0zbMATH Open1016.52013arXivmath/0105088OpenAlexW2076103038MaRDI QIDQ4796567FDOQ4796567

Authors: Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Peter A. B. Pleasants 

Publication date: 5 March 2003

Published in: Canadian Mathematical Bulletin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper characterizes when a Delone set X is an ideal crystal in terms of restrictions on the number of its local patches of a given size or on the hetereogeneity of their distribution. Let N(T) count the number of translation-inequivalent patches of radius T in X and let M(T) be the minimum radius such that every closed ball of radius M(T) contains the center of a patch of every one of these kinds. We show that for each of these functions there is a `gap in the spectrum' of possible growth rates between being bounded and having linear growth, and that having linear growth is equivalent to X being an ideal crystal. Explicitly, for N(T), if R is the covering radius of X then either N(T) is bounded or N(T) >= T/2R for all T>0. The constant 1/2R in this bound is best possible in all dimensions. For M(T), either M(T) is bounded or M(T) >= T/3 for all T>0. Examples show that the constant 1/3 in this bound cannot be replaced by any number exceeding 1/2. We also show that every aperiodic Delone set X has M(T) >= c(n)T for all T>0, for a certain constant c(n) which depends on the dimension n of X and is greater than 1/3 when n > 1.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0105088

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zbMATH Keywords

Delone setcrystallinitytranslation-inequivalent patches

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17) Quasicrystals and aperiodic tilings in discrete geometry (52C23)

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