Kakutani’s splitting procedure for multiscale substitution schemes

In 1975, S. Kakutani introduced a splitting procedure which generates a sequence of partitions of the unit interval [0,1], and showed that this sequence is uniformly distributed in [0,1]. We present generalizations of this procedure in higher dimensions, which correspond to constructions used when defining substitution and multiscale substitution tilings of Euclidean space. We prove uniform distribution of these sequences of partitions using new path counting results on graphs and establish Kakutani’s result as a special case.