Spectral and Tiling properties of the Unit Cube

Abstract

Let $\Q=[0,1)^d$ denote the unit cube in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space \Rd and let \T be a discrete subset of \Rd. We show that the exponentials $e_t(x):=exp(i2\pi tx)$, $t\in\T$ form an othonormal basis for $L^2(\Q)$ if and only if the translates $\Q+t$, $t\in\T$ form a tiling of \Rd.