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Rauzy fractals of random substitutions

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posted on 2025-12-02, 17:18 authored by P Gohlke, Andrew MitchellAndrew Mitchell, D Rust, T Samuel
<p dir="ltr">We develop a theory of Rauzy fractals for random substitutions, which are a generalisation of deterministic substitutions where the substituted image of a letter is determined by a Markov process. We show that a Rauzy fractal can be associated with a given random substitution in a canonical manner, under natural assumptions on the random substitution. Further, we show the existence of a natural measure supported on the Rauzy fractal, which we call the Rauzy measure, that captures geometric and dynamical information. We provide several different constructions for the Rauzy fractal and Rauzy measure, which we show coincide, and ascertain various analytic, dynamical and geometric properties. While the Rauzy fractal is independent of the choice of (non-degenerate) probabilities assigned to a given random substitution, the Rauzy measure captures the explicit choice of probabilities. Moreover, Rauzy measures vary continuously with the choice of probabilities, thus provide a natural means of interpolating between Rauzy fractals of deterministic substitutions. Additionally, we highlight connections between Rauzy fractals and Rauzy measures of random substitutions and related S-adic systems.</p>

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DFG grant 509427705

DFG CRC 1283/2 (2021 - 317210226

Complexity of random substitution tilings

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

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  • Science

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  • Mathematical Sciences

Published in

Advances in Mathematics

Volume

485

Issue

2026

Article number

110713

Publisher

Elsevier

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Acceptance date

2025-11-19

Publication date

2025-11-26

Copyright date

2025

ISSN

0001-8708

eISSN

1090-2082

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Andrew Mitchell. Deposit date: 26 November 2025

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