A remark on perturbations of sine and cosine sums

Abstract: Consider a collection

l a m b d a_{1} < ... < l a m b d a_{N}

of distinct positive integers and the quantities

M_1 = M_1(lambda_1,...,lambda_N) = max_{0le x le 2pi} |sum_{j=1}^N sin{lambda_j x}|

and

M_2 = M_2(lambda_1,...,lambda_N) = - min_{0le x le 2pi} sum_{j=1} cos{lambda_j x}.

Prompted by a discussion with G. Benke we prove that collections of frequencies

l a m b d a_{j}

which have

M_{1} = o (N)

or

M_{2} = o (N)

are unstable, in the sense that one can perturb the

l a m b d a_{j}

by one each and get

M_{1} g e c N

and

M_{2} g e c N

.

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