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A Fourier-analytic Uniqueness Theorem for Lattice-point Enumerators

Combinatorics 2026-08-11 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We consider a bounded set PRdP \subset \mathbb{R}^d and the lattice-point enumerator LP(t)=tPZdL_P(t) = |tP \cap \mathbb{Z}^d| for real t>0t > 0. We show that if two bounded measurable sets with boundary of measure zero have the same real-parameter lattice-point enumerators for all integer translates, then their indicator functions agree almost everywhere. As a corollary, any convex body is uniquely determined by this data. Our proof is short and Fourier-analytic, where the key device is a periodic point-counting function whose Fourier coefficients recover the Fourier transform of the indicator function on a dense set. This recovers and extends, with a unified argument, the uniqueness results for rational polytopes and symmetric convex bodies established by Royer [arXiv:1712.01973, arXiv:1712.03937], whose proofs relied on intricate case-specific geometric constructions.

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@article{arxiv.2608.11078,
  title  = {A Fourier-analytic Uniqueness Theorem for Lattice-point Enumerators},
  author = {António Rocha-Neves},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.11078},
  year   = {2026}
}

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