Abstract:
The regular system is the direct generalization of the concept of
the integer lattice.
A set of points X⊂Rd is called Delaunay set if
two following conditions hold for some positive r and R:
(1) the ball By(r) of radius r centered at the point y∈Rd
contains at most one point x∈X;
(2) the ball By(R) of radius R contains at least one point x∈X.
A lattice of the rank d can be defined as a Delaunay set
in Rd with a point-transitive group of translations.
A regular system is defined as a Delaunay set with a point-transitive group of isometries.
The class of regular systems is of great importance because these sets are considered as the models
of the atomic structure of a crystalline matter.
The aim of Local theory [1] is to
prove rigorously the existence of a point-transitive group for a
Delaunay set X from pairwise congruence of neighborhoods of
points of X. This problem is related to attempt of explaining
why the atomic structure of a matter moves from amorphous state into
structure with a rich symmetry group during the phase transition from liquid to solid state [2].
In the talk, we will discuss several key results of the
local theory of regular systems [3]-[5].
[1] B.N. Delone, N.P. Dolbilin, M.I. Štogrin, R.V. Galiulin,
A local test for the regularity of a system of points. (Russian)
Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR. 227:1 (1976). P. 19 –- 21.
[2] N.P. Dolbilin, J.C. Lagarias, M. Senechal, Multiregular point
systems. Discrete Comput. Geom. 20:4 (1998). P. 477 – 498.
[3] N.P. Dolbilin, Crystal criterion and antipodal Delaunay sets.
Vestnik Chelyabinsk. Gos. Univ. 17 (2015). P. 6 – 17.
[4] N.P. Dolbilin, A.N. Magazinov, Uniqueness theorem for locally antipodal Delaunay sets.
Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. 294 (2016). P. 215 -– 221.
[5] N. Dolbilin, Delone Sets: Local Identity and Global Order.
Volume dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Professors Karoly Bezdek and Egon Schulte,
Springer Contributed Volume on Discrete Geometry and Symmetry. Springer, 2016 (to appear).
arXiv: 1608.06842