Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics, 216 Milner Hall, 30th of Sepember 2009, 3:00-3:50

Groups and Dynamics Seminar


Measures on limit spaces of self-similar groups

Rostyslav Kravchenko of Texas A&M University


Let G be a group and f be a contracting homomorphism from a subgroup H of G of finite index to G. V.Nekrashevych associated with the pair (G, f) the limit dynamical system (JG, s) and the limit G-space XG together with the covering of XG by the translates of the tile T. We develop the theory of self-similar measures m on these limit spaces. It is shown that (JG, s, m) is conjugated to the one-sided Bernoulli shift. We prove that the tile T has integer measure and we give an algorithmic way to compute it. In addition we give an algorithm to find the measure of the intersection of tiles T and (Tg) for g in G. We present application to the evaluation of the Lebesgue measure of integral self-affine tiles.