Maximizing Sudler products via Ostrowski expansions and cotangent sums

DOI10.2140/ANT.2023.17.667arXiv2104.01379MaRDI QIDQ6364465FDOQ6364465

Authors: Christoph Aistleitner, Bence Borda 

Publication date: 3 April 2021

Abstract: There is an extensive literature on the asymptotic order of Sudler's trigonometric product $P_N(alpha)=pro{d}_{n=1}^N|2sin(pinalpha)|$ for fixed or for "typical" values of $alpha$. In the present paper we establish a structural result, which for a given $alpha$ characterizes those $N$ for which $P_N(alpha)$ attains particularly large values. This characterization relies on the coefficients of $N$ in its Ostrowski expansion with respect to $alpha$, and allows us to obtain very precise estimates for $ma{x}_{1leNleqM}{P}_N(alpha)$ and for $su{m}_{N=1}^M{P}_N(alpha{)}^c$ in terms of $M$, for any $c>0$. Furthermore, our arguments give a natural explanation of the fact that the value of the hyperbolic volume of the complement of the figure-eight knot appears generically in results on the asymptotic order of the Sudler product and of the Kashaev invariant.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Radix representation; digital problems (11A63) Continued fractions and generalizations (11J70) Trigonometric and exponential sums (general theory) (11L03) Inequalities for trigonometric functions and polynomials (26D05)

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