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Spectrality of a measure consisting of two line segments

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2025-01-29 v2 Functional Analysis

Abstract

Take an interval [t,t+1][t, t+1] on the xx-axis together with the same interval on the yy-axis and let ρ\rho be the normalized one-dimensional Lebesgue measure on this set of two segments. Continuing the work done by Lai, Liu and Prince (2021) as well as Ai, Lu and Zhou (2023) we examine the spectrality of this measure for all different values of tt (being spectral means that there is an orthonormal basis for L2(ρ)L^2(\rho) consisting of exponentials e2πi(λ1x+λ2y)e^{2\pi i (\lambda_1 x + \lambda_2 y)}). We almost complete the study showing that for 12<t<0-\frac12<t<0 and for all tQt \notin {\mathbb Q} the measure ρ\rho is not spectral. The only remaining undecided case is the case t=12t=-\frac12 (plus space). We also observe that in all known cases of spectral instances of this measure the spectrum is contained in a line and we give an easy necessary and sufficient condition for such measures to have a line spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.2501.11367,
  title  = {Spectrality of a measure consisting of two line segments},
  author = {Mihail N. Kolountzakis and Sha Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.11367},
  year   = {2025}
}

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17 pages, 6 figures