Do flat skew-reciprocal Littlewood polynomials exist?

DOI10.1007/S00365-022-09575-4MaRDI QIDQ6333325arXivFDO

Authors Tamás Erdélyi

Publication date 22 January 2020

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomials in number theory (11C08) Zeros of polynomials, rational functions, and other analytic functions of one complex variable (e.g., zeros of functions with bounded Dirichlet integral) (30C15) Inequalities in approximation (Bernstein, Jackson, Nikol'ski?-type inequalities) (41A17) Polynomials in real and complex fields: factorization (12D05) Real polynomials: location of zeros (26C10)

Abstract: Polynomials with coefficients in $-1,1$ are called Littlewood polynomials. Using special properties of the Rudin-Shapiro polynomials and classical results in approximation theory such as Jackson's Theorem, de la Vall'ee Poussin sums, Bernstein's inequality, Riesz's Lemma, divided differences, etc., we give a significantly simplified proof of a recent breakthrough result by Balister, Bollob'as, Morris, Sahasrabudhe, and Tiba stating that there exist absolute constants $et{a}_2>et{a}_1>0$ and a sequence $(P_n)$ of Littlewood polynomials $P_n$ of degree $n$ such that ${\displaystyle }$eta_1 sqrt{n} leq |P_n(z)| leq eta_2 sqrt{n},, qquad z in mathbb{C},, , , |z| = 1,,${\displaystyle }$ confirming a conjecture of Littlewood from 1966. Moreover, the existence of a sequence $(P_n)$ of Littlewood polynomials $P_n$ is shown in a way that in addition to the above flatness properties a certain symmetry is satisfied by the coefficients of $P_n$ making the Littlewood polynomials $P_n$ close to skew-reciprocal.

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