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On diffraction by aperiodic structures

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This paper gives a rigorous treatment of some aspects of diffraction by aperiodic structures such as quasicrystals. It analyses diffraction in the limit of the infinite system, through an appropriately defined autocorrelation. The main results are a justification of the standard way of calculating the diffraction spectrum of tilings obtained by the projection method and a proof of a variation on a conjecture by Bombieri and Taylor.

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Hof, A. On diffraction by aperiodic structures. Commun.Math. Phys. 169, 25–43 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02101595

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