Strichartz's Question on Fourier Frames for the Cantor Measure
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Precise statement
Does the middle-third Cantor measure admit a Fourier frame, that is, a countable set of exponentials giving two-sided frame bounds on its $L^2$ space? No. The Cantor measure with base $b$ admits no Fourier frame for any odd integer $b > 1$, which answers Strichartz's question for the middle-third case.
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What AI did
GPT-5.5, GPT-5.5 in Codex
The paper devotes a section to it. The authors were trying to build a frame, not to rule one out. With GPT-5.5 they analyzed why their translated ternary digit set candidates fail to give scale-uniform frame bounds, and it is that failed construction which suggested the obstruction the final proof turns on. The model also simplified the key normalized polynomial into a more concise equivalent form. GPT-5.5 in Codex then wrote the Lean formalization, and the authors state that the proof files were generated by language models while they curated and checked the statement.
Lean 4 formalization of the main theorem at the linked repository. Showcase.lean carries a self-contained statement the authors curated and reviewed for human readability; the proof files themselves were LLM-generated, and the trust rests on Mathlib's definitions. We have not recompiled it. arXiv preprint, not yet peer-reviewed.
arXiv:2607.08656 - Cantor measures with odd base do not admit Fourier frames
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