Some examples of repetitive, nonrectifiable Delone sets

DOI10.2140/GT.2016.20.1909MaRDI QIDQ315261zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors María Isabel Cortez, Andrés Navas

Publication date 20 September 2016

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7927, http://hdl.handle.net/10533/228428

zbMATH Keywords

invariant measure non-bi-Lipschitz equivalent repetitive Delone set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Tilings in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C22)

Abstract: We construct examples of Delone sets of the plane (that is, discrete subsets that are uniformly separated and coarsely dense) that are repetitive (each patch of the set appears in every large-enough ball) though non-rectifiable (i.e. non bi-Lipschitz equivalent to the standard lattice). More generally, we construct such a set so that the translation action on the closure of its orbit has any prescribed Choquet simplex as its set of invariant probability measures (in particular, we provide uniquely ergodic examples). The construction relies on classical examples of Burago-Kleiner and McMullen, for which we give pure combinatorial (an effective) versions that have interest by themselves.

Review text

A Delone set in \(\mathbb R^d\) is a uniformly discrete and relatively dense set \(\mathcal D\) of points of \(\mathbb R^d\), i.e., there exist positive constants \(\rho\) and \(\varrho\) such that the distance between every two different points of \(\mathcal D\) is not less than \(\rho\) and for any point of \(\mathbb R^d\) there is a point of \(\mathcal D\) such that the distance between the two points is not greater than \(\varrho\). A set is said to be repetitive if a translated copy of each patch appears in every large enough ball.NEWLINENEWLINEA Delone set \(\mathcal D \subset \mathbb R^d\) is said to be rectifiable if it is bi-Lipschitz equivalent to \(\mathbb Z^d\), which means that there exists a bijection \(f : \mathcal D \to \mathbb Z^d\) and a real number \(L \geq 1\) such that for all \(x\), \(y\) from \(\mathcal D\), NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\frac{\| x - y \|}{L} \leq \|f(x) - f(y)\| \leq L\|x - y\|.NEWLINE\]NEWLINE The question of the existence of nonrectifiable Delone sets in \(\mathbb R^d\), for \(d \geq 2\), was raised by M. Gromov. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE \textit{D. Burago} and \textit{B. Kleiner} [Geom. Funct. Anal. 12, No. 1, 80--92 (2002; Zbl 1165.26007)]NEWLINEand, independently, \textit{C. T. McMullen} [Geom. Funct. Anal. 8, No. 2, 304--314 (1998; Zbl 0941.37030)]NEWLINE gave examples of Delone sets that are not bi-Lipschitz equivalent to the standard lattice.NEWLINENEWLINEIn the paper under review the authors refine the methods of construction developed by the above mentioned authors by using a discretization technique. They construct the first examples of nonrectifiable Delone sets which are repetitive.

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