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Substitution sequences in \mathbb{Z}^{d} with a non-simple Lebesgue component in the spectrum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2003

NATALIE PRIEBE FRANK
Affiliation:
Vassar College, Department of Mathematics, 124 Raymond Avenue, Box 248, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604, USA (e-mail: napriebe@vassar.edu)
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Abstract

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We construct d-dimensional substitution sequences for which the continuous part of the spectrum is generated by measures equal to Lebesgue measure. A special case is the Rudin–Shapiro substitution sequence. The construction uses Hadamard matrices in an essential way, so the dimension and size of a substitution is restricted by the size of the Hadamard matrix defining it. Each such substitution automatically has a dual substitution, which is defined by the same Hadamard matrix, and which retains a Lebesgue spectral component. We also see that random application of our substitutions produces sequences with a Lebesgue component in their spectrum. Finally, we see that any d-dimensional substitution with d > 1 can be ‘unraveled’ into lower-dimensional substitutions which still have Lebesgue spectral components.

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Copyright
2003 Cambridge University Press