On a function related to Chowla's cosine problem

Abstract: Chowla's cosine problem concerns the largest minimum of an expression of the form

c o s a_{1} h e t a + ... + c o s a_{n} h e t a

where the

a_{i}

are distinct positive integers. We compute this largest minimum when

n

is 2 or 3.

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