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On the "pits effect" of Littlewood and Offord

Complex Variables 2021-12-21 v2

Abstract

Suppose that the moduli of the coefficients of a power series are 1/n!, while the arguments are arbitrary. If an entire function f represented by such power series decreases exponentially on some ray, then it has to be an exponential. If the arguments of the coefficients are of the form 2pi n^2a, where a is irrational, then the function displays the so-called "pits effect". More precisely, under this condition, f is of completely regular growth with constant indicator.

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@article{arxiv.0710.2870,
  title  = {On the "pits effect" of Littlewood and Offord},
  author = {Alexandre Eremenko and Iossif Ostrovskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.2870},
  year   = {2021}
}

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