Consequences of Pure Point Diffraction Spectra for Multiset Substitution Systems

TL;DR

This paper investigates the relationship between pure point diffraction spectra and the structure of primitive substitution systems, establishing that lattice substitution multiset systems are pure point diffractive if and only if they are regular model sets.

Contribution

It proves that for lattice substitution multiset systems, being a regular model set is both necessary and sufficient for pure point diffraction spectra, completing a key theoretical equivalence.

Findings

Lattice substitution multiset systems are pure point diffractive iff they are regular model sets.

Characterization of repetitive substitution Delone multisets via legal clusters.

Establishes equivalence between pure point spectra, modular coincidence, and model sets for lattice systems.

Abstract

There is a growing body of results in the theory of discrete point sets and tiling systems giving conditions under which such systems are pure point diffractive. Here we look at the opposite direction: what can we infer about a discrete point set or tiling, defined through a primitive substitution system, given that it is pure point diffractive? Our basic objects are Delone multisets and tilings, which are self-replicating under a primitive substitution system of affine mappings with a common expansive map $Q$. Our first result gives a partial answer to a question of Lagarias and Wang: we characterize repetitive substitution Delone multisets that can be represented by substitution tilings using a concept of "legal cluster". This allows us to move freely between both types of objects. Our main result is that for lattice substitution multiset systems (in arbitrary dimensions) being a regular model set is not only sufficient for having pure point spectrum--a known fact--but is also necessary. This completes a circle of equivalences relating pure point dynamical and diffraction spectra, modular coincidence, and model sets for lattice substitution systems begun by the first two authors of this paper.