Proof of Saffari's near-orthogonality conjecture for ultraflat sequences of unimodular polynomials (Q2767594)

Let \(P_n(z)= \sum^n_{k=0} a_{k,n} z^k\in \mathbb{C}[z]\) be unimodular polynomials, i.e., \(\forall k\) and \(n\in\mathbb{N}\), \(|a_{k,n} |=1\). Suppose that the sequence \(\{P_n(z)\}\) is ultraflat in the sense of J.-P. Kahane, i.e., NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\lim\max \Bigl\{\biggl|(n+1)^{-1/2}\bigl|P_n(z) \bigr |- 1\biggr|: |z|=1\Bigl\} =0\;(n\to\infty)NEWLINE\]NEWLINE and call \(P^*_n(z) =\sum^n_{k=0} a_{n-k,n}z^k\) ``conjugate reciprocal'' of \(P_n(z)\). The author proves the following B. Saffari's conjecture: \(P_n(z)\) and \(P^*_n(z)\) are ``quasi-orthogonal'' as \(n\to\infty\), i.e., \(\sum^n_{k=0} a_{k,n}a_{n-k,n}=o (n)\).