Classification of conservation-forced primitive substitution tilings

Let (T,σ,M)(\mathcal{T},\sigma,M) be a primitive substitution tiling system of Rd\mathbb{R}^d with finite local complexity. Call it conservation-forced when it satisfies the conservation-law conditions defined earlier in the paper. Let λPF(M)\lambda_{\mathrm{PF}}(M) denote the Perron–Frobenius eigenvalue of the substitution matrix MM. The tiling is also assumed, in the second condition below, to arise from a lattice ΛRN\Lambda\subset\mathbb{R}^N as a canonical projection tiling satisfying the paper's Definition~. Classification conjecture. The following conditions are equivalent:

  1. (T,σ,M)(\mathcal{T},\sigma,M) is conservation-forced.
  2. T\mathcal{T} is a primitive-substitution canonical projection tiling arising from a lattice ΛRN\Lambda\subset\mathbb{R}^N and satisfying Definition~, and λPF(M)\lambda_{\mathrm{PF}}(M) is a Pisot number.

The implication from condition 2 to condition 1 is proved, even without the Pisot assumption, whereas the converse implication remains open.

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Sebastian Pardo-Guerra, Jonathan Washburn and Elshad Allahyarov, “Matching Rules as Cocycle Conditions: Discrete Potentials on Penrose and Canonical Projection Tilings”, arXiv:2603.13553 (2026).

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