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Integral Concentration of idempotent trigonometric polynomials with gaps

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2008-10-16 v2

Abstract

We prove that for all p>1/2 there exists a constant γp>0\gamma_p>0 such that, for any symmetric measurable set of positive measure E\TTE\subset \TT and for any γ<γp\gamma<\gamma_p, there is an idempotent trigonometrical polynomial f satisfying Efp>γ\TTfp\int_E |f|^p > \gamma \int_{\TT} |f|^p. This disproves a conjecture of Anderson, Ash, Jones, Rider and Saffari, who proved the existence of γp>0\gamma_p>0 for p>1 and conjectured that it does not exists for p=1. Furthermore, we prove that one can take γp=1\gamma_p=1 when p>1 is not an even integer, and that polynomials f can be chosen with arbitrarily large gaps when p2p\neq 2. This shows striking differences with the case p=2, for which the best constant is strictly smaller than 1/2, as it has been known for twenty years, and for which having arbitrarily large gaps with such concentration of the integral is not possible, according to a classical theorem of Wiener. We find sharper results for 0<p10<p\leq 1 when we restrict to open sets, or when we enlarge the class of idempotent trigonometric polynomials to all positive definite ones.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0707.3023,
  title  = {Integral Concentration of idempotent trigonometric polynomials with gaps},
  author = {Aline Bonami and Szilárd Gy. Révész},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.3023},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

43 pages; to appear in Amer. J. Math

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