An improved example for an autoconvolution inequality
Classical Analysis and ODEs
2025-08-12 v2 Combinatorics
Number Theory
Abstract
We give a nonnegative step function with 575 equally spaced intervals such that This improves upon a recent result of Deepmind's AlphaEvolve, which found a nonnegative step function with 50 equally space intervals for which the left hand side is . Our function was found using simulated annealing and gradient based methods rather than using large language models.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2506.16750,
title = {An improved example for an autoconvolution inequality},
author = {Christopher Boyer and Zane Kun Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.16750},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
8 pages, 3 figures; revised version incorporating referee comments