Mathematics – Metric Geometry
Scientific paper
2001-05-11
Canad. Math. Bull. Vol 48 (4), 2002 pp. 634-652
Mathematics
Metric Geometry
26 pages. Uses latexsym and amsfonts packages
Scientific paper
This paper characterizes when a Delone set X is an ideal crystal in terms of restrictions on the number of its local patches of a given size or on the hetereogeneity of their distribution. Let N(T) count the number of translation-inequivalent patches of radius T in X and let M(T) be the minimum radius such that every closed ball of radius M(T) contains the center of a patch of every one of these kinds. We show that for each of these functions there is a `gap in the spectrum' of possible growth rates between being bounded and having linear growth, and that having linear growth is equivalent to X being an ideal crystal. Explicitly, for N(T), if R is the covering radius of X then either N(T) is bounded or N(T) >= T/2R for all T>0. The constant 1/2R in this bound is best possible in all dimensions. For M(T), either M(T) is bounded or M(T) >= T/3 for all T>0. Examples show that the constant 1/3 in this bound cannot be replaced by any number exceeding 1/2. We also show that every aperiodic Delone set X has M(T) >= c(n)T for all T>0, for a certain constant c(n) which depends on the dimension n of X and is greater than 1/3 when n > 1.
Lagarias Jeffrey C.
Pleasants Peter A. B.
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