Support conjecture for tight-frame spectra

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Let mumu be a compactly supported probability measure in Rd{\mathbb R}^d, let μ~(E)=μ(E)\widetilde{\mu}(E)=\mu(-E), and let Λ\Lambda be a tight-frame spectrum for mumu. Write δΛ\delta_\Lambda for the counting measure on Λ\Lambda, and let the Fourier transform be understood in the tempered-distribution sense.

Support conjecture for tight-frame spectra. Then

suppδΛ^{0}(supp(μμ~))C.\operatorname{supp}\widehat{\delta_\Lambda}\subset \{0\}\cup\bigl(\operatorname{supp}(\mu*\widetilde{\mu})\bigr)^C.

The conjecture arises formally by taking Fourier transforms in the tiling equation for μ^2|\widehat{\mu}|^2. If true, it would constrain the Fourier support of every tight-frame spectrum through the support of the self-convolution measure; the source does not establish it.

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Primary source

Mihail N. Kolountzakis and Chun-Kit Lai, “Non-spectrality of some piecewise smooth curves and unions of line segments”, arXiv:2507.00581 (2025).

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