This paper investigates dynamical systems arising from the
action by
translations on the orbit closures of self-similar and
self-affine tilings
of ${\Bbb R}^d$. The main focus is on spectral properties of such
systems
which are shown to be uniquely ergodic. We establish
criteria for
weak mixing and pure discrete spectrum for wide classes of
such systems.
They are applied to a number of examples which include
tilings with
polygonal and fractal tile boundaries; systems with pure
discrete,
continuous and mixed spectrum.
We show that for multi-colored Delone point sets with finite local complexity and uniform cluster frequencies the notions of pure point diffraction and pure point dynamical spectrum are equivalent.
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