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A lower bound for the L1-norm of certain exponential sums

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

P. G. Dixon
P. G. Dixon
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Department of Pure Mathematics, Sheffield.
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Littlewood [5, Problem 4.19, originally 4] conjectured that there is an absolute constant C > 0 such that, for every sequence of distinct integers n1, n2, n3, …, if

then

Cohen [2] showed

for some absolute constant C, with b = 1/8. Davenport [3] gave a more explicit version of Cohen's proof and improved the estimate to b = 1/4. Pichorides [6] added another refinement to obtain b = ½, and has, more recently, obtained ‖fN‖1>C(log N)1/2. This seems to be the best estimate so far without restriction on the sequences. We shall show that the methods of Davenport and Pichorides may be extended to obtain better results for certain classes of sequences. Specifically, we prove the following theorems.

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Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , December 1977 , pp. 182 - 188
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Copyright © University College London 1977

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