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Fuglede's spectral set conjecture for convex polytopes

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2018-03-16 v2 Functional Analysis

Abstract

Let Ω\Omega be a convex polytope in Rd\mathbb{R}^d. We say that Ω\Omega is spectral if the space L2(Ω)L^2(\Omega) admits an orthogonal basis consisting of exponential functions. There is a conjecture, which goes back to Fuglede (1974), that Ω\Omega is spectral if and only if it can tile the space by translations. It is known that if Ω\Omega tiles then it is spectral, but the converse was proved only in dimension d=2d=2, by Iosevich, Katz and Tao. By a result due to Kolountzakis, if a convex polytope ΩRd\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^d is spectral, then it must be centrally symmetric. We prove that also all the facets of Ω\Omega are centrally symmetric. These conditions are necessary for Ω\Omega to tile by translations. We also develop an approach which allows us to prove that in dimension d=3d=3, any spectral convex polytope Ω\Omega indeed tiles by translations. Thus we obtain that Fuglede's conjecture is true for convex polytopes in R3\mathbb{R}^3.

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@article{arxiv.1602.08854,
  title  = {Fuglede's spectral set conjecture for convex polytopes},
  author = {Rachel Greenfeld and Nir Lev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.08854},
  year   = {2018}
}

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To appear in Analysis & PDE

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