Lattice tilings by cubes: Whole, notched and extended (Q1380204)

Summary: We discuss some problems of lattice tiling via Harmonic Analysis methods. We consider lattice tilings of \(\mathbf {R}^d\) by the unit cube in relation to the Minkowski conjecture (now a theorem of Hajós) and give a new equivalent form of Hajós's theorem. We also consider ``notched cubes'' (a cube from which a reactangle has been removed from one of the corners) and show that they admit lattice tilings. This has also been proved by S. Stein by a direct geometric method. Finally, we exhibit a new class of simple shapes that admit lattice tilings, the ``extended cubes'', which are unions of two axis-aligned rectangles that share a vertex and have intersection of odd codimension. In our approach we consider the Fourier Transform of the indicator function of the tile and try to exhibit a lattice of appropriate volume in its zero-set.