STRUCTURE OF SPECTRAL PAIRS IN 1-DIMENSION

Debashish Bose
Abstract
A set $\Omega$ of Lebesgue measure 1 in the real line is called spectral if there is a set $\Lambda$ of real numbers such that the exponential functions $e_\lambda(x) = \exp(2\pi i \lambda x)$, $\lambda\in\Lambda$, form a complete orthonormal system on $L2(\Omega)$. Such a set $\Lambda$ is called a spectrum of $\Omega$, and the pair $(\Omega,\Lambda)$ is called a spectral pair. In this talk I will present a proof that any spectrum $\Lambda$ of a set $\Omega$ which is finite union of intervals must be periodic and thus obtain a structure theorem for such spectral pairs.