Equicontinuous Delone Dynamical Systems

Kellendonk, Johannes ; Lenz, Daniel

Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 65 (2013) no. 1, pp. 149-170

Résumé

We characterize equicontinuous Delone dynamical systems as those coming from Delone sets with strongly almost periodic Dirac combs. Within the class of systems with finite local complexity, the only equicontinuous systems are then shown to be the crystallographic ones. On the other hand, within the class without finite local complexity, we exhibit examples of equicontinuous minimal Delone dynamical systems that are not crystallographic. Our results solve the problem posed by Lagarias as to whether a Delone set whose Dirac comb is strongly almost periodic must be crystallographic.

Détail

DOI : 10.4153/CJM-2011-090-3

Mots-clés : 37B50, Delone sets, tilings, diffraction, topological dynamical systems, almost periodic systems

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