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Balancing Polynomials in the Chebyshev Norm

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2020-09-30 v2 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Given nn polynomials p1,,pnp_1, \dots, p_n of degree at most nn with pi1\|p_i\|_\infty \le 1 for i[n]i \in [n], we show there exist signs x1,,xn{1,1}x_1, \dots, x_n \in \{-1,1\} so that i=1nxipi<30n,\Big\|\sum_{i=1}^n x_i p_i\Big\|_\infty < 30\sqrt{n}, where p:=supx1p(x)\|p\|_\infty := \sup_{|x| \le 1} |p(x)|. This result extends the Rudin-Shapiro sequence, which gives an upper bound of O(n)O(\sqrt{n}) for the Chebyshev polynomials T1,,TnT_1, \dots, T_n, and can be seen as a polynomial analogue of Spencer's "six standard deviations" theorem.

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@article{arxiv.2009.05692,
  title  = {Balancing Polynomials in the Chebyshev Norm},
  author = {Victor Reis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.05692},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Fixed a small error in Lemma 7

R2 v1 2026-06-23T18:29:11.218Z