Fuglede's spectral set conjecture for convex polytopes
Abstract
Let $\Omega$ be a convex polytope in $\mathbb{R}^d$. We say that $\Omega$ is spectral if the space $L^2(\Omega)$ admits an orthogonal basis consisting of exponential functions. There is a conjecture, which goes back to Fuglede (1974), that $\Omega$ is spectral if and only if it can tile the space by translations. It is known that if $\Omega$ tiles then it is spectral, but the converse was proved only in dimension $d=2$, by Iosevich, Katz and Tao. By a result due to Kolountzakis, if a convex polytope $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ is spectral, then it must be centrally symmetric. We prove that also all the facets of $\Omega$ are centrally symmetric. These conditions are necessary for $\Omega$ to tile by translations. We also develop an approach which allows us to prove that in dimension $d=3$, any spectral convex polytope $\Omega$ indeed tiles by translations. Thus we obtain that Fuglede's conjecture is true for convex polytopes in $\mathbb{R}^3$.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- February 2016
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1602.08854
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1602.08854
- Bibcode:
- 2016arXiv160208854G
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Classical Analysis and ODEs;
- Mathematics - Functional Analysis
- E-Print:
- To appear in Analysis &