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Fuglede's conjecture

Fuglede's conjecture proper noun: the conjecture that every domain of ℝᵈ (i.e. subset of ℝᵈ with positive finite Lebesgue measure) is a spectral set if and only if it tiles ℝᵈ by translation.

Proper noun

Fuglede's conjecture

  1. The conjecture that every domain of ℝᵈ (i.e. subset of ℝᵈ with positive finite Lebesgue measure) is a spectral set if and only if it tiles ℝᵈ by translation.

Origin of Fuglede's conjecture

Proposed by Danish mathematician Bent Fuglede in 1974

Questions about Fuglede's conjecture

What does Fuglede's conjecture mean?
Fuglede's conjecture means the conjecture that every domain of ℝᵈ (i.e. subset of ℝᵈ with positive finite Lebesgue measure) is a spectral set if and only if it tiles ℝᵈ by translation.
What part of speech is Fuglede's conjecture?
Fuglede's conjecture is a proper noun.

Words near Fuglede's conjecture in the dictionary

  1. fugits
  2. Fugitt
  3. Fugitts
  4. fugle
  5. fugled
  6. Fuglede's conjecture
  7. fugleman
  8. fuglemen
  9. fugler
  10. fuglers
  11. fugles

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