Pisot substitution conjecture

Let σ\sigma be a Pisot irreducible substitution, meaning that the characteristic polynomial of its incidence matrix is the minimal polynomial of a Pisot number. Let (Xσ,S)(X_{\sigma},S) be the associated shift. Pisot substitution conjecture. The shift (Xσ,S)(X_{\sigma},S) has pure discrete spectrum, meaning that it is isomorphic, in a measure-theoretic sense, to a translation on a compact abelian group. The conjecture concerns when substitutions generate one-dimensional quasicrystals and pure discrete spectrum; it was motivated by the connection between Pisot algebraic properties and quasicrystals, but the supplied text does not establish its resolution.

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Primary source

Valérie Berthé and Reem Yassawi, “Meyer sets, Pisot numbers, and self-similarity in symbolic dynamical systems”, arXiv:2404.04116 (2025).

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7 papers in this index state this conjecture (2015–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2401.07771, arXiv:1810.03500, arXiv:1802.09956, arXiv:1711.01498, arXiv:1705.11130, arXiv:1505.04408.

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