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Fall 2002 The Steinhaus tiling problem and the range of certain quadratic forms
Mihail N. Kolountzakis, Michael Papadimitrakis
Illinois J. Math. 46(3): 947-951 (Fall 2002). DOI: 10.1215/ijm/1258130994

Abstract

We give a short proof of the fact that there are no measurable subsets of Euclidean space (in dimension $d\ge 3$) which, no matter how translated and rotated, always contain exactly one integer lattice point. In dimension $d=2$ (the original Steinhaus problem) the question remains open.

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Mihail N. Kolountzakis. Michael Papadimitrakis. "The Steinhaus tiling problem and the range of certain quadratic forms." Illinois J. Math. 46 (3) 947 - 951, Fall 2002. https://doi.org/10.1215/ijm/1258130994

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Published: Fall 2002
First available in Project Euclid: 13 November 2009

zbMATH: 1026.52021
MathSciNet: MR1951250
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1215/ijm/1258130994

Subjects:
Primary: 52C22
Secondary: 11E16

Rights: Copyright © 2002 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Vol.46 • No. 3 • Fall 2002
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