Canonical self-affine tilings by iterated function systems

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Abstract: An iterated function system Phi consisting of contractive similarity mappings has a unique attractor FsubseteqmathbbRd which is invariant under the action of the system, as was shown by Hutchinson [Hut]. This paper shows how the action of the function system naturally produces a tiling mathcalT of the convex hull of the attractor. More precisely, it tiles the complement of the attractor within its convex hull. These tiles form a collection of sets whose geometry is typically much simpler than that of F, yet retains key information about both F and Phi. In particular, the tiles encode all the scaling data of Phi. We give the construction, along with some examples and applications. The tiling mathcalT is the foundation for the higher-dimensional extension of the theory of emph{complex dimensions} which was developed for the case d=1 in ``Fractal Geometry, Complex Dimensions, and Zeros of Zeta Functions, by Michel L. Lapidus and Machiel van Frankenhuijsen.









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