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On the Annihilation of Thin Sets

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2017-11-16 v2

Abstract

One says that a pair of sets (S,Q)(S,Q) in R\mathbb{R} is 'annihilating' if no function can be concentrated on SS while having its Fourier transform concentrated on QQ. One uses to distinguish between weak and strong annihilation types. It is well known that if both sets SS and QQ are of finite measure then they are strongly annihilating. In this paper we prove that if SS is a set of finite measure with periodic gaps, and QQ is a set of density zero, then weak annihilation holds. On the other hand a counter-example is constructed, showing that strong annihilation, in general, does not.

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@article{arxiv.1711.04131,
  title  = {On the Annihilation of Thin Sets},
  author = {Tomer Amit and Alexander Olevskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.04131},
  year   = {2017}
}
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