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Spectrum is rational in dimension one

Functional Analysis 2020-05-14 v2 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

A bounded measurable set ΩRd\Omega\subset{\mathbb R}^d is called a spectral set if it admits some exponential orthonormal basis {e2πiλ,x:λΛ}\{e^{2\pi i \langle\lambda,x\rangle}: \lambda\in\Lambda\} for L2(Ω)L^2(\Omega). In this paper, we show that in dimension one d=1d=1, any spectrum Λ\Lambda with 0Λ0\in\Lambda of a spectral set Ω\Omega with Lebesgue measure normalized to 1 must be rational. Combining previous results that spectrum must be periodic, the Fuglede's conjecture on R1{\mathbb R}^1 is now equivalent to the corresponding conjecture on all cyclic groups Zn.{\mathbb Z}_{n}.

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@article{arxiv.1908.02794,
  title  = {Spectrum is rational in dimension one},
  author = {Chun-Kit Lai and Yang Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.02794},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

A gap was found in Section 4 of the paper, which appears to be uneasy to be resolved. We would like to thank Nir Lev for pointing it out. As a result, we would like to withdraw it now. Results before Section 4 are correct, we welcome someone to fix the gap later

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