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Shigeki Akiyama

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Characterization of the numbers which satisfy the height reducing property

Let $α$ be a complex number. We show that there is a finite subset $F$ of the ring of the rational integers $\mathbb{Z}$, such that $F\left[ α\right] =\mathbb{Z}\left[ α\right]$, if and only if $α$ is an algebraic number whose conjugates, over the field of the rationals, are all of modulus one, or all of modulus greater than one. This completes the answer to a question, on the numbers satisfying the height reducing property, posed in [3].

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Overlap coincidence to strong coincidence in substitution tiling dynamics

Overlap coincidence is an equivalent criterion to pure discrete spectrum of the dynamics of self affine tilings. In the case of one dimension, strong coincidence on m letter irreducible substitution has been introduced in Dekking (1978) and Arnoux and Ito (2001) which implies that the system is metrically conjugate to a domain exchange. However being a domain exchange does not imply the property of pure discrete spectrum of the tiling dynamics. The relation between two coincidences has not been established completely. In this paper we generalize strong coincidence to higher dimensions and show the implication from overlap coincidence to the new strong coincidence when the associated height group is trivial. Furthermore we introduce a new criterion simultaneous coincidence and show the implication from overlap coincidence to the simultaneous coincidence. The triviality of the height group is shown in Barge and Kwapisz (2006) and Sing (2006) for 1 dimension irreducible Pisot substitutions.

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A family of non-sofic beta expansions

Let β_n>1 be a root of x^n-x-1 for n=4,5,... We will prove that β_n is not a Parry number, i.e., the associated beta transformation does not correspond a sofic symbolic system. A generalization is shown in the last section.

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Mean Divisibility of Multinomial coefficients

Let m_1,...,m_s be positive integers. Consider the sequence defined by multinomial coefficients: a_n=\binom{(m_1+m_2+... +m_s)n}{m_1 n, m_2 n,..., m_s n}. Fix a positive integer k\ge 2. We show that there exists a positive integer C(k) such that \frac{\prod_{n=1}^t a_{kn}}{\prod_{n=1}^t a_n} \in \frac 1{C(k)} \Z for all positive integer t, if and only if GCD(m_1,...,m_s)=1.

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Auto-similarity in rational base number systems

This work is a contribution to the study of set of the representations of integers in a rational base number system. This prefix-closed subset of the free monoid is naturally represented as a highly non regular tree whose nodes are the integers and whose subtrees are all distinct. With every node of that tree is then associated a minimal infinite word. The main result is that a sequential transducer which computes for all n the minimal word associated with n+1 from the one associated with n, has essentially the same underlying graph as the tree itself. These infinite words are then interpreted as representations of real numbers; the difference between the numbers represented by these two consecutive minimal words is the called the span of a node of the tree. The preceding construction allows to characterise the topological closure of the set of spans.

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Comments on the height reducing property

A complex number alpha is said to satisfy the height reducing property if there is a finite subset F of the ring Z of the rational integers such that Z[alpha]=F[alpha]. This problem of finding F has been considered by several authors, especially in contexts related to self affine tilings, and expansions of real numbers in non-integer bases. We continue, in this note, the description of the numbers satisfying the height reducing property, and we specify a related characterization of the roots of integer polynomials with dominant term.

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The computation of overlap coincidence in Taylor-Socolar substitution tiling

Recently Taylor and Socolar introduced an aperiodic mono-tile. The associated tiling can be viewed as a substitution tiling. We use the substitution rule for this tiling and apply the algorithm of \cite{AL} to check overlap coincidence. It turns out that the tiling has overlap coincidence. So the tiling dynamics has pure point spectrum and we can conclude that this tiling has a quasicrystalline structure.

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Discrete spectra and Pisot numbers

By the m-spectrum of a real number q>1 we mean the set Y^m(q) of values p(q) where p runs over the height m polynomials with integer coefficients. These sets have been extensively investigated during the last fifty years because of their intimate connections with infinite Bernoulli convolutions, spectral properties of substitutive point sets and expansions in noninteger bases. We prove that Y^m(q) has an accumulation point if and only if q<m+1 and q is not a Pisot number. Consequently a number of related results on the distribution of points of this form are improved.

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Pentagonal Domain Exchange

Self-inducing structure of pentagonal piecewise isometry is applied to show detailed description of periodic and aperiodic orbits, and further dynamical properties. A Pisot number appears as a scaling constant and plays a crucial role in the proof. Further generalization is discussed in the last section.

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Algorithm for determining pure pointedness of self-affine tilings

Overlap coincidence in a self-affine tiling in $\R^d$ is equivalent to pure point dynamical spectrum of the tiling dynamical system. We interpret the overlap coincidence in the setting of substitution Delone set in $\R^d$ and find an efficient algorithm to check the pure point dynamical spectrum. This algorithm is easy to implement into a computer program. We give the program and apply it to several examples. In the course the proof of the algorithm, we show a variant of the conjecture of Urbański (Solomyak \cite{Solomyak:08}) on the Hausdorff dimension of the boundaries of fractal tiles.

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Similar dissection of sets

In 1994, Martin Gardner stated a set of questions concerning the dissection of a square or an equilateral triangle in three similar parts. Meanwhile, Gardner's questions have been generalized and some of them are already solved. In the present paper, we solve more of his questions and treat them in a much more general context. Let $D\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ be a given set and let $f_1,...,f_k$ be injective continuous mappings. Does there exist a set $X$ such that $D = X \cup f_1(X) \cup ... \cup f_k(X)$ is satisfied with a non-overlapping union? We prove that such a set $X$ exists for certain choices of $D$ and $\{f_1,...,f_k\}$. The solutions $X$ often turn out to be attractors of iterated function systems with condensation in the sense of Barnsley. Coming back to Gardner's setting, we use our theory to prove that an equilateral triangle can be dissected in three similar copies whose areas have ratio $1:1:a$ for $a \ge (3+\sqrt{5})/2$.

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Periodicity of certain piecewise affine planar maps

We determine periodic and aperiodic points of certain piecewise affine maps in the Euclidean plane. Using these maps, we prove for $λ\in\{\frac{\pm1\pm\sqrt5}2,\pm\sqrt2,\pm\sqrt3\}$ that all integer sequences $(a_k)_{k\in\mathbb Z}$ satisfying $0\le a_{k-1}+λa_k+a_{k+1}<1$ are periodic.

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