A Fourier-analytic Uniqueness Theorem for Lattice-point Enumerators
Abstract
We consider a bounded set and the lattice-point enumerator for real . 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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4 pages