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Extinctions and Correlations for Uniformly Discrete Point Processes with Pure Point Dynamical Spectra

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The paper investigates how correlations can completely specify a uniformly discrete point process. The setting is that of uniformly discrete point sets in real space for which the corresponding dynamical hull is ergodic. The first result is that all of the essential physical information in such a system is derivable from its n-point correlations, n = 2, 3, . . . . If the system is pure point diffractive an upper bound on the number of correlations required can be derived from the cycle structure of a graph formed from the dynamical and Bragg spectra. In particular, if the diffraction has no extinctions, then the 2 and 3 point correlations contain all the relevant information.

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    Daniel Lenz

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    Robert V. Moody

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Lenz, D., Moody, R.V. Extinctions and Correlations for Uniformly Discrete Point Processes with Pure Point Dynamical Spectra. Commun. Math. Phys. 289, 907–923 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-009-0818-0

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