Packing near the tiling density and exponential bases for product domains

zbMATH Open1425.52017arXiv1606.02452MaRDI QIDQ4972035FDOQ4972035

Publication date: 22 November 2019

Abstract: A set

O m e g a

in a locally compact abelian group is called spectral if

L^{2} (O m e g a)

has an orthogonal basis of group characters. An important problem, connected with the so-called Spectral Set Conjecture (saying that

O m e g a

is spectral if and only if a collection of translates of

O m e g a

can partition the group), is the question of whether the spectrality of a product set

O m e g a = A i m e s B

, in a product group, implies the spectrality of the factors

A

and

B

. Recently Greenfeld and Lev proved that if

I

is an interval and

O m e g a s u b s e t e q {m a t h b b R}^{d}

then the spectrality of

I i m e s O m e g a

implies the spectrality of

O m e g a

. We give a different proof of this fact by first proving a result about packings of high density implying the existence of tilings by translates of a function. This allows us to improve the result to a wider collection of product sets than those dealt with by Greenfeld and Lev. For instance when