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    The costs of redisorganisation

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    Displacement-based performance assessment of steel moment resisting frames

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    DISCRETEPLANES,Z2-ACTIONS,JACOBI-PERRONALGORITHMAND Abstract.Weintroducetwo-dimensionalsubstitutionsgeneratingtwo-dimensionalsequencesrelatedtodiscreteapproximationsofirrationalplanes.Thesetwo-dimensionalsubstitutionsare producedbytheclassicalJacobi-Perro

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    thecoordinatesoftheunitvectororthogonaltothegivenplane;thisalgorithmproducesasequence ofgeneralizedsubstitutions,whichcanbeinterpretedasactingontwo-dimensionalsequences,cre- steppedsurface. atingarbitrarilylargepartsofthesymbolicsequenceassociatedwiththeplane.Thesegeneralized substitutionsaredeeplyconnectedtothehigher-dimensionalextensionsofsubstitutionsintroduced in[24,25,3,5],whichactonunittips(facesofunitcubeswithintegervertices),generatingthe waythislinebyabrokenlinemadeofhorizontalandverticalsegmentswithintegervertices(this iswhatisdone,forexample,torepresentsuchalineonacomputerscreen[7]). usualcontinuedfractions.Letusrstrecallshortlytheframeworkoftheusualcontinuedfractions, anditsinterpretationintermsofdynamicsofrotations,Sturmiansequencesandapproximationof irrationallines;wewillbemorepreciseintherstsection. Consideralinewithpositiveirrationaldirectionay=bx.Onecanapproximateinanobvious Onecanrepresentthislinebyasymbolicsequencewithvaluesinthealphabetf0;1g.These Thispapergrewoutofanattempttogeneralizetohigherdimensionswell-knownresultsfo
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