SPECIAL QUADRATURE ERROR ESTIMATES AND THEIR APPLICATION IN THE HARDY-LITTLEWOOD MAJORANT PROBLEM
The Hardy-Littlewood majorant problem has a positive answer only for exponents p which are even integers, while there are counterexam- ples for all p = 2 2N. Montgomery conjectured that there exist counterex- amples even among idempotent polynomials. This was proved recently by Mockenhaupt and Schlag with some four-term idempotents. However, Mockenhaupt conjectured that even the classical 1 + e 2ix e 2i (k+2)x three-term character sums, should work for all 2k < p < 2k + 2 and for all k 2 N. In two previous papers we proved this conjecture for k = 0;1;2;3;4, i.e. in the range 0 < p < 10, p = 2 2N. Here we demonstrate that even the k = 5 case holds true. Renements in the technical features of our approach include use of total variation and integral mean estimates in error bounds for a certain fourth order quadrature. Our estimates make good use of the special forms of functions we encounter: linear combinations of powers and powers of log- arithms of absolute value squares of trigonometric polynomials of given degree. Thus the quadrature error estimates are less general, but we can nd better constants which are of practical use for us.
Concentration of the Integral Norm of Idempotents
This chapter is a companion of a recent paper, entitled Integral concentration of idempotent trigonometric polynomials with gaps. New results of the present work concern L 1 concentration, while the above-mentioned paper deals with L p concentration. Our aim here is twofold. First we try to explain methods and results, and give further straightforward corollaries. On the other hand, we also push forward the methods to obtain a better constant for the possible concentration (in the L 1 norm) of an idempotent on an arbitrary symmetric measurable set of positive measure. We prove a rather high level γ1 > 0. 96, which contradicts strongly the conjecture of Anderson et al. that there is no positive concentration in the L 1 norm. The same problem is considered on the group \(\mathbb{Z}/q\mathbb{Z}\), with q, say, a prime number. There, the property of absolute integral concentration of idempotent polynomials fails, which is in a way a positive answer to the conjecture mentioned above. Our proof uses recent results of B. Green and S. Konyagin on the Littlewood problem.
Majorants andLp norms
It is shown that ifG is an infinite compact abelian group, thenLp (G) has the upper majorant property only ifp is even orp=∞.