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Around the Fej\'er-Jackson inequality: Tight bounds for certain oscillatory functions via Laplace transform representations

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2025-12-30 v1

Abstract

The error of approximation of the 2π2\pi-periodic sawtooth function (πx)/2(\pi-x)/2, 0x<2π0\leq x<2\pi, by its nn-th Fourier polynomial is shown to be bounded by arccot((2n+1)sin(x/2))((2n+1)\sin(x/2)). Related asymptotically tight inequalities with explicit constants are given for the integral of the Dirichlet kernel interpolated to non-integer values of frequency parameter and for the Taylor series remainder of the logarithmic function log(1z)\log(1-z) in the unit circle. The proofs are based on the Laplace transform representation of the Lerch Zeta function with s=1s=1.

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@article{arxiv.2512.23001,
  title  = {Around the Fej\'er-Jackson inequality: Tight bounds for certain oscillatory functions via Laplace transform representations},
  author = {Sergey Sadov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.23001},
  year   = {2025}
}

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26 pp, 2 figures