{"id":15,"date":"2011-04-18T16:35:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T20:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogpilot02.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T11:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:17:38","slug":"papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/?page_id=15","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Publications and Preprints<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/html\/2504.00184v1\">&#8220;(Don&#8217;t) mind the gap: complexity of gapped digit substitutions&#8221;<\/a> (with May Mei and Kitty Yang), Mathematics Magazine , published online July 3, (2025).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/epdf\/10.1007\/s00283-024-10388-5?sharing_token=acu6YM_NwnONJHMveQbQ2_e4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY7qWZmcS4gzQmTiM6YaLjso7cbn83fKZlrevAhFaElqlB1f0Z31X3Z7oxd88eD201pssDfkwvGSe-RcngFjCgQE0F8jqkjbjm9SGDY_-n0Ph2o7_kk_vs35-ghAmdWo8g0%3D\">&#8220;The Tiling Book: An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Tilings by Colin Adams&#8221;<\/a>, (book review), The Mathematical Intelligencer <strong>47<\/strong>(2), 184\u2013186.<span class=\"\" data-wiz-rootname=\"ohfaMd\" data-processed=\"true\"><span class=\"vKEkVd\" data-animation-atomic=\"\" data-processed=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/files\/2023\/03\/Frank-SubsIIETUwe.pdf\">&#8220;Flow views and infinite interval exchange transformations for recognizable substitutions&#8221;<\/a>, Indagationes Mathematicae <strong>35<\/strong>, no 5, 1075-1103 (2024).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2108.08642.pdf\">&#8220;Spectral theory of spin substitutions&#8221;<\/a> (with Neil Manibo), Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems <strong>42<\/strong>, no. 11 (2022).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/files\/2022\/07\/ThreeVariationsFibonacci.pdf\">&#8220;Three variations on a theme by Fibonacci&#8221;<\/a>, Stochastics and Dynamics 21, no. 3 (2021). This was a &#8220;top downloaded paper&#8221; for this journal in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/files\/2018\/11\/NonPisotBaakeFrankGrimmRobinson2018.pdf\">Geometric properties of a non-Pisot inflation and absence of absolutely continuous spectrum<\/a>&#8221; (with Michael Baake, Uwe Grimm, and E. Arthur Robinson, Jr.), Studia Mathematica <strong>247<\/strong>, no. 2 (2019), 109-154.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/files\/2018\/12\/NatalieFrankNov29.pdf\">&#8220;An introduction to hierarchical tiling dynamical systems<\/a>&#8220;, Lecture Notes from the Jean-Morlet Chair, Centre International de Rencontres Mathematiques, November 2017. To appear in Springer&#8217;s <em>Lecture Notes in Mathematics.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/files\/2011\/04\/FWW_ArXiv_2014-10-20.pdf\">&#8220;Fractal dual substitution tilings&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0(with Michael F. Whittaker and Samuel Webster), \u00a0Journal of Fractal Geometry <strong>3<\/strong>, no. 3 (2016), pp. 265-317.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/files\/2013\/12\/ILCchapterdraft11.pdf\">&#8220;Tilings with infinite local complexity&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">, in J. Kellendonk, D. Lenz, and J. Savinien, editors, <em>Mathematics of Aperiodic Order<\/em>, Progress in Mathematics <strong>309<\/strong>, Birkhauser, 2015.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/files\/2011\/04\/KrakowProceedingsFrank.pdf\">&#8220;Fusion: a general framework for hierarchical tilings&#8221;<\/a>,\u00a0in the Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Quasicrystallography (ICQ12), \u00a0Acta Physica Polonica A <strong>126<\/strong> (2014), pp. 461-466.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/files\/2013\/11\/ILCfusion15.pdf\">&#8220;Fusion tilings with infinite local complexity&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0(with Lorenzo Sadun), Topology Proceedings <strong>43<\/strong> (2014), pp. 235-276.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/files\/2013\/11\/fusion24.pdf\">&#8220;Fusion: a general framework for hierarchical tilings of R^d&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0(with Lorenzo Sadun), Geometriae Dedicata, Online First 2013. DOI:\u00a010.1007\/s10711-013-9893-7. Print version: <strong>171<\/strong>, no. 1 (2014), pp. 149-186.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/files\/2011\/04\/10.1007_s00283-011-9212-9.pdf\">&#8220;A fractal version of the pinwheel tiling&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 with Michael F. Whittaker (downloadable preprint). \u00a0Mathematical Intelligencer <strong>33<\/strong>, no. 2 (2011), pp. 7 &#8211; 17. Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/rdcu.be\/mFJD\">view-only link<\/a> to the published version.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/files\/2011\/04\/monthly099-112.pdf\">&#8220;A dynamical system using the Voronoi tessellation&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0(with Sean Hart), American Mathematical Monthly\u00a0<strong>117<\/strong>, no. 2 (2010), pp. 99-112.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/files\/2012\/08\/Frank-oberreport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Spectral theory of bijective substitution sequences&#8221;<\/a> Oberwolfach Reports 6 (2009), no. 1, somewhere in pp. 725-766. This is an extended abstract of my March 5, 2009 talk at Oberwolfach.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/files\/2011\/04\/Frank1557_12.pdf\">&#8220;Topology of (some) tiling spaces without finite local complexity&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0(with Lorenzo Sadun), Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. <strong>23\u00a0<\/strong>(2009), no. 3, 847-865.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/files\/2011\/04\/FrankExpositiones.pdf\">&#8220;A primer of substitution tilings of the Euclidean plane&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0Expo. Math.\u00a0<strong>26<\/strong>\u00a0(2008), no. 4, 295-326.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/files\/2012\/08\/orbittype.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Generalized beta-expansions, substitution tilings, and local finiteness&#8221;<\/a> (With E. A. Robinson, Jr.) Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. <strong>360<\/strong>\u00a0(2008), no. 3, 1163-1177.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/files\/2012\/08\/bijspec.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Multidimensional constant-length substitution sequences&#8221;<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nTopology and its Applications <strong>152<\/strong>, no. 1-2: 44-69, 2005.<br \/>\nProceedings of the Dynamical Systems Conference.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/files\/2012\/08\/graphs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Detecting combinatorial hierarchy in tilings using derived Voronoi tessellations&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nDiscrete and Computational Geometry\u00a0<strong>29<\/strong>: 459-476, 2003. Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/rdcu.be\/mFJo\">link to the published version<\/a>, which I think is open access now.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/files\/2012\/08\/lebgen1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Substitution sequences in Z^d with a nonsimple Lebesgue component in the spectrum&#8221;.<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nErgodic Theory and Dynamical Systems\u00a0<strong>23<\/strong>, no 2: 519-532, 2003.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/files\/2011\/04\/pseudo.pdf\">&#8220;Characterization of planar pseudo-self-similar tilings&#8221;<\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: normal\"> (with Boris Solomyak),<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: normal\">Discrete and Computational Geometry\u00a0<strong>26<\/strong>, no. 3: 289-306, 2001. Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/rdcu.be\/mFJf\">link to the published version<\/a>, which I think is open access now.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/files\/2012\/08\/paper1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Towards a characterization of self-similar tilings via derived Voronoi tessellations&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nGeometriae Dedicata\u00a0<strong>79<\/strong>: 239-265, 2000.\u00a0Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/rdcu.be\/mFIO\">link to the published version<\/a>, which I think is open access now.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Undergraduate Research Summer Institute technical report (unpublished), with Allison Edgren, Olivia Gillham, and Sean Hart:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vspace.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/NPFpublications\/EFGH.pdf\">&#8220;On a dynamical system based on Voronoi tessellations&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publications and Preprints &#8220;(Don&#8217;t) mind the gap: complexity of gapped digit substitutions&#8221; (with May Mei and Kitty Yang), Mathematics Magazine , published online July 3, (2025). &#8220;The Tiling Book: An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Tilings by Colin Adams&#8221;, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/?page_id=15\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":77,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/nafrank\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}