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arxiv: 1801.02957 · v1 · pith:XFXPNIUInew · submitted 2018-01-09 · 🧮 math.GN · math.DS

Topology of planar self-affine tiles with collinear digit set

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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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