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On non-periodic tilings of the real line by a function

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2015-10-27 v2

Abstract

It is known that a positive, compactly supported function fL1(R)f \in L^1(\mathbb R) can tile by translations only if the translation set is a finite union of periodic sets. We prove that this is not the case if ff is allowed to have unbounded support. On the other hand we also show that if the translation set has finite local complexity, then it must be periodic, even if the support of ff is unbounded.

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@article{arxiv.1505.06833,
  title  = {On non-periodic tilings of the real line by a function},
  author = {Mihail N. Kolountzakis and Nir Lev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.06833},
  year   = {2015}
}

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To appear in International Mathematics Research Notices (IMRN)