Characterisation of locally compact abelian groups having spectral synthesis (Q6926663)

For an abelian topological group \(G\), let \(C(G)\) be the space of all continuous complex-valued functions on \(G\) equipped with the topology of uniform convergence on compact sets. A closed linear subspace \(V\) in \(C(G)\) is called a \textit{variety} on \(G\) if it is translation invariant. Given \(f\in C(G)\), the intersection of all varieties containing \(f\) is called the \textit{variety} of \(f\). Functions of the form \(f(x)=P(a_1(x),a_2(x),\ldots,a_k(x))\ m(x)\) are called \textit{exponential monomials} if \(P:\mathbb{C}^k \rightarrow \mathbb{C}\) is a complex-polynomial in \(k\) variables and \(a_1,a_2,\ldots,a_k\) are additive functions. The variety \(V\) on \(G\) is \textit{synthesizable} if exponial monomials span a dense subspace in it. Spectral synthesis holds on \(V\) if every subvariety of \(V\) is synthesizable. Spectral synthesis holds on the group \(G\), or \(G\) is synthesizable, if every variety on \(G\) is synthesizable. \N\NIn the present paper, the author gives a complete characterization of those locally compact abelian groups on which spectral synthesis holds. In particular, if \(G\) is a compactly generated locally compact abelian group, then spectral synthesis holds on \(G\) if and only if \(G\) is topologically isomorphic to \(\mathbb{R}^a \times \mathbb{Z}^b \times F\), where \(a\leq 1\) and \(b\) are non-negative integers and \(F\) is an arbitrary compact abelian group.