The City College of New YorkCCNY
Department of Mathematics
Division of Science

Multiscale substitution schemes and Kakutani sequences of partitions.

Mathematics Colloquium

Time and place

12:30 PM on Thursday, November 8th, 2018; NAC 6/114

Yotam Smilansky (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Abstract

Substitution schemes provide a classical method for constructing tilings of Euclidean space. Allowing multiple scales in the scheme, we introduce a rich family of sequences of tile partitions generated by the substitution rule, which include the sequence of partitions of the unit interval considered by Kakutani as a special case. In this talk we will use new path counting results for directed weighted graphs to show that such sequences of partitions are uniformly distributed, thus extending Kakutani's original result. Furthermore, we will describe certain limiting frequencies associated with sequences of partitions, which relate to the distribution of tiles of a given type and the volume they occupy.

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