The Hermite Wigner zero-set rigidity conjecture

Let Wf(z)Wf(z) be the Wigner distribution of some function fL2(R)f\in L^2(\mathbb{R}), with bounded nodal set N(Wf)\mathcal{N}(Wf), and suppose that WfWf is centered at z=0z=0. For a Hermite function hkh_k, write N(Whk)\mathcal{N}(Wh_k) for the nodal set of its Wigner distribution. Hermite Wigner zero-set rigidity conjecture. If

N(Whk)N(Wf),\mathcal{N}(Wh_k)\subset \mathcal{N}(Wf),

then, and only then, Wf(z)=Whk(z)Wf(z)=Wh_k(z) everywhere. This conjecture extends the verified cases for the first, second, and third Hermite functions to all Hermite functions; the paper states that it is proved conditional on a conjecture concerning divisibility of Laguerre polynomials.

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Luís Daniel Abreu, Ulysse Chabaud, Nuno Costa Dias and João Nuno Prata, “Inverse problems for the zeros of the Wigner function”, arXiv:2504.20324 (2025).

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