Pure discrete spectrum for a class of one-dimensional substitution tiling systems

Abstract

We prove that if a primitive and non-periodic substitution is injective on initial letters, constant on final letters, and has Pisot inflation, then the $\mathbb{R}$-action on the corresponding tiling space has pure discrete spectrum. As a consequence, all $\beta$-substitutions for $\beta$ a Pisot simple Parry number have tiling dynamical systems with pure discrete spectrum, as do the Pisot systems arising, for example, from substitutions associated with the Jacobi-Perron and Brun continued fraction algorithms.