Hyperuniformity and Number Rigidity of Inflation Tilings

Abstract: In this article we prove that a large class of inflation tilings are hyperuniform: this includes the novel hat tilings introduced by Smith et al. and well known examples such as Penrose, Ammann-Beenker and shield tilings. In some cases, such as for Penrose tilings, we are also able to prove number rigidity, making them the first aperiodic examples with finite local complexity, hyperuniformity and number rigidity in higher dimensions. We prove this by deriving self-similarity equations for spherical diffraction, which generalize renormalization relations for ordinary diffraction found by Baake and Grimm. Our method applies to inflation tilings of arbitrary dimensions for which there is a sufficiently large eigenvalue gap in the reduced substitution matrix