A CHARACTERIZATION OF DIRICHLET SETS

The notion of a Dirichlet set has been studied for several decades. Such sets are named in honour of Dirichlet's Theorem [4, pp.235] which, in modern terminology, simply says that every finite set in R is a dirichlet set. In this paper, we present a structure theorem which characterizes all D-sets on the real line. We also use our structure theorem to give a new proof of a known criterion for proving that a set fails to be a D-set.