Von Neumann algebras and linear independence of translates

Peter A. Linnell

For x,y in R (where R denotes the real numbers) and f in L^2(R), define (x,y)f(t) = e^{2 pi i yt}f(t+x) and if L is a subset of R^2, define S(f,L) = {(x,y)f | (x,y) in L}. It has b…