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Littlewood asked how small the ratio $||f||_4/||f||_2$ (where $||.||_\alpha$ denotes the $L^\alpha$ norm on the unit circle) can be for polynomials $f$ having all coefficients in $\{1,-1\}$, as the degree tends to infinity. Since 1988, the…

Littlewood raised the question of how slowly the L_4 norm ||f||_4 of a Littlewood polynomial f (having all coefficients in {-1,+1}) of degree n-1 can grow with n. We consider such polynomials for odd square-free n, where \phi(n)…

Littlewood raised the question of how slowly ||f_n||_4^4-||f_n||_2^4 (where ||.||_r denotes the L^r norm on the unit circle) can grow for a sequence of polynomials f_n with unimodular coefficients and increasing degree. The results of this…

A Littlewood polynomial is a single-variable polynomial all of whose coefficients lie in $\{ \pm 1\}$. We establish the leading term asymptotics of the number of reciprocal or skew-reciprocal Littlewood polynomials with square discriminant.…

A Littlewood polynomial is a polynomial in $\mathbb{C}[z]$ having all of its coefficients in $\{-1,1\}$. There are various old unsolved problems, mostly due to Littlewood and Erd\H{o}s, that ask for Littlewood polynomials that provide a…

In this paper we investigate the uniform distribution properties of polynomials in many variables and bounded degree over a fixed finite field F of prime order. Our main result is that a polynomial P : F^n -> F is poorly-distributed only if…

A Littlewood polynomial is a polynomial of the form \[ f_n(x)=\sum_{k=0}^n \varepsilon_k x^k \] with $\varepsilon_k\in\{-1, 1\}$. Let $(\varepsilon_k)_{k \ge 0}$ be i.i.d. Rademacher coefficients. We show that the lower envelope of…

We use a non-linear characterization of orthonormal polynomials due to Saff in order to show that the behavior of orthonormal polynomials is determined only by its leading coefficient and its normalization. Several applications of this…

Let $[n]$ denote $\{0,1, ... , n-1\}$. A polynomial $f(x) = \sum a_i x^i$ is a Littlewood polynomial (LP) of length $n$ if the $a_i$ are $\pm 1$ for $i \in [n]$, and $a_i = 0$ for $i \ge n$. Such an LP is said to have order $m$ if it is…

We consider multilinear Littlewood polynomials, polynomials in $n$ variables in which a specified set of monomials $U$ have $\pm 1$ coefficients, and all other coefficients are $0$. We provide upper and lower bounds (which are close for $U$…

We consider the semi-classical generalized Freud weight function \[w_{\lambda}(x;t) = |x|^{2\lambda+1}\exp(-x^4 +tx^2),\qquad x\in\mathbb{R},\] with $ \lambda>-1$ and $t\in\mathbb{R}$ parameters. We analyze the asymptotic behavior of the…

Consider a quadratic polynomial $f\left(\xi_{1},\dots,\xi_{n}\right)$ of independent Bernoulli random variables. What can be said about the concentration of $f$ on any single value? This generalises the classical Littlewood--Offord problem,…

The problem of constructing polynomials with all coefficients $1$ or $-1$ and large merit factor (equivalently with small $L^4$ norm on the unit circle) arises naturally in complex analysis, condensed matter physics, and digital…

We study $\{0, 1\}$ and $\{-1, 1\}$ polynomials $f(z)$, called Newman and Littlewood polynomials, that have a prescribed number $N(f)$ of zeros in the open unit disk $\mathcal{D} = \{z \in \mathbb{C}: |z| < 1\}$. For every pair $(k, n) \in…

Consider a degree-$d$ polynomial $f(\xi_1,\dots,\xi_n)$ of independent Rademacher random variables $\xi_1,\dots,\xi_n$. To what extent can $f(\xi_1,\dots,\xi_n)$ concentrate on a single point? This is the so-called polynomial…

We consider random polynomials whose coefficients are independent and uniform on {-1,1}. We prove that the probability that such a polynomial of degree n has a double root is o(n^{-2}) when n+1 is not divisible by 4 and asymptotic to…

A conjecture due to Cilleruelo states that for an irreducible polynomial $f$ with integer coefficients of degree $d\geq 2$, the least common multiple $L_f(N)$ of the sequence $f(1), f(2), \dots, f(N)$ has asymptotic growth $\log L_f(N)\sim…

If f(x_1, x_2, ..., x_n) is a polynomial dependent on a large number of independent Bernoulli random variables, what can be said about the maximum concentration of f on any single value? For linear polynomials, this reduces to one version…

We obtain asymptotics of polynomials satisfying the orthogonality relations $$ \int_{\mathbb{R}} z^k P_n(z; t , N) \mathrm{e}^{-N \left(\frac{1}{4}z^4 + \frac{t}{2}z^2 \right)} \mathrm{d} z = 0 \quad \text{ for } \quad k = 0, 1, ..., n-1,…

We study a family of polynomials which are orthogonal with respect to the varying, highly oscillatory complex weight function $e^{ni\lambda z}$ on $[-1,1]$, where $\lambda$ is a positive parameter. This family of polynomials has appeared in…