On the spectrality of the non-homogeneous golden-mean self-similar measure

Yi-Qiu Mao; Zhi-Yi Wu

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On the spectrality of the non-homogeneous golden-mean self-similar measure

Yi-Qiu Mao·Zhi-Yi Wu

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We investigate the spectral properties of a class of inhomogeneous self-similar measures, which does not admit a non-trivial infinite convolution structure. A central example is the golden-mean self-similar measure $\mu$, for which the existence of an exponential orthonormal basis in the associated $L^2$-space has remained a long-standing open problem. The usual approach for homogeneous self-similar measures does not apply here, new methods are required. We establish several basic properties of the measure and then carry out a detailed numerical study of the zero set of its Fourier transform. Using a scanning and refinement algorithm that combines uniform grid sampling, quadratic interpolation, and golden-section search, we examine a wide range and find no real zeros of $\widehat{\mu}$, which provides concrete evidence that $\mu$ is very likely non-spectral, suggesting that inhomogeneity may serve as a natural obstruction to the existence of exponential orthonormal bases. To the best of our knowledge, our paper is the first attempt to study the spectrality of such measures through a combined analytic and numerical framework.

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Yi-Qiu Mao, Zhi-Yi Wu. 2026-09-04. On the spectrality of the non-homogeneous golden-mean self-similar measure. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04701

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