Density results for Gabor systems associated with periodic subsets of the real line

The well-known density theorem for one-dimensional Gabor systems of the form , where , states that a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of such a system whose linear span is dense in , or which forms a frame for , is that the density condition is satisfied. The main goal of this paper is to study the analogous problem for Gabor systems for which the window function g vanishes outside a periodic set which is -shift invariant. We obtain measure-theoretic conditions that are necessary and sufficient for the existence of a window g such that the linear span of the corresponding Gabor system is dense in L²(S). Moreover, we show that if this density condition holds, there exists, in fact, a measurable set with the property that the Gabor system associated with the same parameters a,b and the window g=χ_E, forms a tight frame for L²(S).