On the Sidon constant for Dirichlet polynomials

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Abstract: We estimate the error term in the asymptotic formula of the Sidon constant for (ordinary) Dirichlet polynomials by providing explicit lower and upper bounds. The lower bound is already implicitly known, but we supply the necessary computations to make it explicit. The upper bound is improved by a factor of logloglogx/sqrtloglogx.


Let \[ f_x(s)= \sum_{n\leq x} \frac{a_n}{n^s} \] be the truncated Dirichlet polynomial associated to a Dirichlet series \(f(s)= \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} (a_n/n^s)\). The Sidon constant \(S(x)\) for \(f_x\) is defined as \[ S(x)=\sup_{f_x \neq 0} \frac{\| \hat{f_x}\|_1}{\| f_x\|_{\infty}}, \] where \(\| \hat{f_x}\|_1 = \sum_{n\leq x} |a_n|\) and \(\| f_x\|_{\infty} = \sup_{t \in \mathbb{R}} |f_x(it)|\). As an application of a hypercontractive Bohnenblust-Hille inequality for homogeneous polynomials, in [\textit{A. Defant} et al., Ann. Math. (2) 174, No. 1, 485--497 (2011; Zbl 1235.32001)] it is obtained that \[ S(x)= \sqrt{x}\exp\left( (-1+o(1)) \sqrt{\frac{\log x \log\log x}{2}} \right), \] as \(x \to \infty\). The main goal of the paper under review is to sharpen the above bound for \(S(x)\) by providing explicit lower and upper bounds for the \(o(1)\)-term. If we denote by \(\delta(x)\) the \(o(1)\)-term, in the paper under review it is proved that \[ -\frac{1}{2}\frac{\log\log\log x}{\log\log x} + O\left( \frac{1}{\log\log x}\right) \leq \delta(x) \leq 3 \frac{\log\log\log x}{\log\log x} + O\left( \frac{1}{\log\log x}\right), \] as \(x \to \infty\). More precisely, the lower bound is implicit in [\textit{R. de la Bretèche}, Acta Arith. 134, No. 2, 141--148 (2008; Zbl 1302.11068)], while the upper bound is improved by a factor of \(\log \log \log x /\sqrt{\log\log x}\) from what is obtained by combining the results of de la Breteche [loc. cit.] and Defant et al. [loc. cit.].











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