Tiles with no spectra
Classical Analysis and ODEs
2007-05-23 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
We exhibit a subset of a finite Abelian group, which tiles the group by translation, and such that its tiling complements do not have a common spectrum (orthogonal basis for their space consisting of group characters). This disproves the Universal Spectrum Conjecture of Lagarias and Wang. Further, we construct a set in some finite Abelian group, which tiles the group but has no spectrum. We extend this last example to the groups and (for ) thus disproving one direction of the Spectral Set Conjecture of Fuglede. The other direction was recently disproved by Tao.
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@article{arxiv.math/0406127,
title = {Tiles with no spectra},
author = {Mihail N. Kolountzakis and Mate Matolcsi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0406127},
year = {2007}
}
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