Pisot substitution conjecture

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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.

References

Primary source

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

Additional references

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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