Fuglede's conjecture fails in 4 dimensions over odd prime fields
Abstract
Fuglede's conjecture in , a prime, says that a subset tiles by translation if and only if is spectral, meaning any complex-valued function on can be written as a linear combination of characters orthogonal with respect to . We disprove Fuglede's conjecture in for all odd primes , by using log-Hadamard matrices to exhibit spectral sets of size which do not tile, extending the result of Aten et al. that the conjecture fails in for primes and in for all odd primes . We show, however, that our method does not extend to . We also prove the conjecture in , resolving all cases of four-dimensional vector spaces over prime fields. Our simple proof method does not extend to higher dimensions. The authors, however, have written a computer program to verify that the conjecture holds in and . Finally, we modify Terry Tao's counterexample to show that the conjecture fails in . Fuglede's conjecture in is now resolved in all cases except when and , or when and .
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@article{arxiv.1901.08734,
title = {Fuglede's conjecture fails in 4 dimensions over odd prime fields},
author = {Samuel Ferguson and Nat Sothanaphan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.08734},
year = {2020}
}
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