Wiener's 'closure of translates' problem and Piatetski-Shapiro's uniqueness phenomenon

Abstract

Wiener characterized the cyclic vectors (with respect to translations) in $l^p(Z)$ and $L^p(R)$, $p=1,2$, in terms of the zero set of the Fourier transform. He conjectured that a similar characterization should be true for $1<p<2$. Our main result contradicts this conjecture.