On the maxima of Littlewood polynomials on $[-1,1]$
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2026-05-12 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
A Littlewood polynomial is a polynomial of the form with . Let be i.i.d. Rademacher coefficients. We show that the lower envelope of is determined by the small-ball probability of a certain Gaussian process. In particular, almost surely,
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@article{arxiv.2604.19294,
title = {On the maxima of Littlewood polynomials on $[-1,1]$},
author = {Brayden Letwin and Mehtaab Sawhney},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.19294},
year = {2026}
}
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29 pages