Tilings for Pisot beta numeration

Abstract

For a (non-unit) Pisot number $\beta$, several collections of tiles are associated with $\beta$-numeration. This includes an aperiodic and a periodic one made of Rauzy fractals, a periodic one induced by the natural extension of the $\beta$-transformation and a Euclidean one made of integral beta-tiles. We show that all these collections (except possibly the periodic translation of the central tile) are tilings if one of them is a tiling or, equivalently, the weak finiteness property (W) holds. We also obtain new results on rational numbers with purely periodic $\beta$-expansions; in particular, we calculate $\gamma (\beta )$ for all quadratic $\beta$ with ${\beta }^2=a\beta +b$, $\gcd (a,b)=1$.