Spectrally reasonable measures

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the problems related to measures with a natural spectrum (equal to the closure of the set of the values of the Fourier-Stieltjes transform). Since it is known that the set of all such measures does not have a Banach algebra structure we consider the set of all suitable perturbations called spectrally reasonable measures. In particular, we exhibit a broad class of spectrally reasonable measures which contains absolutely continuous ones. On the other hand, we show that except trivial cases all discrete (purely atomic) measures do not posses this property.