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Topology of planar self-affine tiles with collinear digit set
Author(s) -
Shigeki Akiyama,
Benoît Loridant,
Jörg Μ. Thuswaldner
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of fractal geometry mathematics of fractals and related topics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.459
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2308-1317
pISSN - 2308-1309
DOI - 10.4171/jfg/98
Subject(s) - planar , topology (electrical circuits) , affine transformation , set (abstract data type) , numerical digit , arithmetic , mathematics , computer science , algorithm , combinatorics , pure mathematics , computer graphics (images) , programming language
We consider the self-affine tiles with collinear digit set defined as follows. Let $A,B\in\mathbb{Z}$ satisfy $|A|\leq B\geq 2$ and $M\in\mathbb{Z}^{2\times2}$ be an integral matrix with characteristic polynomial $x^2+Ax+B$. Moreover, let $\mathcal{D}=\{0,v,2v,\ldots,(B-1)v\}$ for some $v\in\mathbb{Z}^2$ such that $v,M v$ are linearly independent. We are interested in the topological properties of the self-affine tile $\mathcal{T}$ defined by $M\mathcal{T}=\bigcup_{d\in\mathcal{D}}(\mathcal{T}+d)$. Lau and Leung proved that $\mathcal{T}$ is homeomorphic to a closed disk if and only if $2|A|\leq B+2$. In particular, $\mathcal{T}$ has no cut point. We prove here that $\mathcal{T}$ has a cut point if and only if $2|A|\geq B+5$. For $2|A|-B\in \{3,4\}$, the interior of $\mathcal{T}$ is disconnected and the closure of each connected component of the interior of $\mathcal{T}$ is homeomorphic to a closed disk.

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