Problems / analysis
analysis / Finite harmonic analysis / phase retrieval on cyclic groups
Complete rational classification of fifth-order autocorrelation ambiguities on U30
Agulnick and Busick-Warner exhibited a family of fifth-order ambiguities on the exact unit support U30 and conjectured that it was not a complete classification because it did not use the full field Q(ζ30). This work proves the complete classification. The larger field enlarges the common amplitude α, while every relative ambiguity remains a norm-one parameter in Q(ζ6). The result is a specialization of a theorem for every exact unit support U6m.
The entry does not claim a complete parametrization for arbitrary supports: on the 255 automorphism-stable supports treated elsewhere in the paper, the broader result is a closing-degree classification. It does not treat noisy data or noncyclic groups, and it makes no novelty, priority, or firstness claim.