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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…

Let $P(z)=\sum_{n=0}^Na_nz^n$ be a Littlewood polynomial of degree $N$, meaning that $a_n\in\{\pm 1\}$. We say that $P$ is reciprocal if $P(z)=z^NP(1/z)$. Borwein, Erd\'elyi and Littmann posed the question of determining the minimum number…

A Newman polynomial has all the coefficients in $\{ 0,1\}$ and constant term 1, whereas a Littlewood polynomial has all coefficients in $\{-1,1\}$. We call $P(X)\in\mathbb{Z}[X]$ a Borwein polynomial if all its coefficients belong to $\{…

This paper investigates coefficients of cyclotomic polynomials theoretically and experimentally. We prove the following result. {{\em If $n=p_1\ldots p_k$ where $p_i$ are odd primes and $p_1<p_2<\ldots<p_r<p_1+p_2<p_{r+1}<\ldots<p_t$ with…

We show that the Littlewood-Richardson coefficients are values at 1 of certain parabolic Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials for affine symmetric groups. These q-analogues of Littlewood-Richardson multiplicities coincide with those previously…

In 1951 paper \cite{Ki} Kippenhahn conjectured that if the characteristic polynomial \ $P_A(x_1,x_2,x_3)=\mbox{det}(x_1A_1+x_2A_2-x_3I)$, \ where $A_1$ and $A_2$ are $n\times n$ Hermitian matrices, has a repeated factor in the polynomial…

Let $\Pi_n$ be the class of algebraic polynomials $P$ of degree $n$, all of whose zeros lie on the segment $[-1,1]$. In 1995, S.P. Zhou has proved the following Tur\'{a}n type reverse Markov-Nikol'skii inequality: $\|P'\|_{L_p[-1,1]}>c\,…

We present a simple proof on the existence of $L^1$-flat analytic polynomials with coefficients $0,1$ on the circle and on the real line and we give an example of a conservative ergodic map and flow whose unitary operators admits a simple…

We prove that the Littlewood conjecture is satisfied for a restricted class of pairs $(\alpha,\beta)$ of badly approximable numbers. We use the localization of the roots of a cubic equation with coefficients depending on the diophantine…

A complex polynomial $P(z) = c_0 + c_1 z +...+ c_n z^n$ is called unimodular if $|c_j| = 1$, $j = 0,...,n$. Littlewood asked the question (1966) on how close a unimodular polynomial come to satisfying $|P(z)| \approx \sqrt{n+1}$ if $n \ge…

It is shown that Erd\"{o}s--Littlewood's polynomials are not $L^\alpha$-flat when $\alpha > 2$ is an even integer (and hence for any $\alpha \geq 4$). This provides a partial solution to an old problem posed by Littlewood. Consequently, we…

We prove that a conjecture of Fomin, Fulton, Li, and Poon, associated to ordered pairs of partitions, holds for many infinite families of such pairs. We also show that the bounded height case can be reduced to checking that the conjecture…

Schubert polynomials were discovered by A. Lascoux and M. Sch\"utzenberger in the study of cohomology rings of flag manifolds in 1980's. These polynomials generalize Schur polynomials, and form a linear basis of multivariate polynomials. In…

Let $P_{<n}(z)$ be the Rudin-Shapiro polynomial of degree $n-1$. We show that $|P_{<n}(z)|\le \sqrt{6n-2}-1$ for all $n\ge0$ and $|z|=1$, confirming a longstanding conjecture. This bound is sharp in the case when $n=(2\cdot 4^k+1)/3$ and…

Given $k\in N$, a nonnegative function $f\in C^r[a,b]$, $r\ge 0$, an arbitrary finite collection of points $\big\{\alpha_i\big\}_{i\in J} \subset [a,b]$, and a corresponding collection of nonnegative integers $\big\{m_i\big\}_{i\in J}$ with…

Let $\mathbb{P}= \{P_1, \cdots, P_{k}\in \mathbb{R}[y]\}$ be a collection of polynomials with distinct degrees and zero constant terms. We proved that there exists $\epsilon=\epsilon(\mathbb{P})>0$ such that, for any compact set $E \subset…

In this paper we obtain the sharp estimates for the mixed $\left( \ell_{1},\ell _{2}\right) $-Littlewood inequality for real scalars with exponents $\left(2,1,2,2....,2\right) .$ These results are applied to find sharp estimates for the…

In this paper, we study the root distribution of some univariate polynomials $W_n(z)$ satisfying a recurrence of order two with linear polynomial coefficients over positive numbers. We discover a sufficient and necessary condition for the…

Let $\epsilon_{1},\ldots,\epsilon_{n}$ be a sequence of independent Rademacher random variables. We prove that there is a constant $c>0$ such that for any unit vectors $v_1,\ldots,v_n\in \mathbb{R}^2$, $$\Pr\left[||\epsilon_1…

Let ${\mathcal P}_k$ denote the set of all algebraic polynomials of degree at most $k$ with real coefficients. Let ${\mathcal P}_{n,k}$ be the set of all algebraic polynomials of degree at most $n+k$ having exactly $n+1$ zeros at $0$. Let…