A Cantor-Lebesgue theorem with variable “coefficients”
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Abstract:
If $\{\phi _n\}$ is a lacunary sequence of integers, and if for each $n$, $c_n(x)$ and $c_{-n}(x)$ are trigonometric polynomials of degree $n,$ then $\{c_n(x)\}$ must tend to zero for almost every $x$ whenever $\{c_n(x)e^{i\phi _nx}+c_{-n}(-x)e^{-i\phi _nx}\}$ does. We conjecture that a similar result ought to hold even when the sequence $\{\phi _n\}$ has much slower growth. However, there is a sequence of integers $\{n_j\}$ and trigonometric polynomials $\{P_j\}$ such that $\{e^{in_jx}-P_j(x)\}$ tends to zero everywhere, even though the degree of $P_j$ does not exceed $n_j-j$ for each $j$. The sequence of trigonometric polynomials $\{\sqrt {n}\sin ^{2n}\frac x2\}$ tends to zero for almost every $x$, although explicit formulas are developed to show that the sequence of corresponding conjugate functions does not. Among trigonometric polynomials of degree $n$ with largest Fourier coefficient equal to $1$, the smallest one “at” $x=0$ is $4^n\binom {2n}n^{-1}\sin ^{2n}\left ( \frac x2\right ) ,$ while the smallest one “near” $x=0$ is unknown.References
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Additional Information
- J. Marshall Ash
- MR Author ID: 27660
- Email: mash@math.depaul.edu
- Gang Wang
- Affiliation: (\text{J. M. Ash and G. Wang}) Department of Mathematics, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois 60614-3504
- Email: gwang@math.depaul.edu
- David Weinberg
- Affiliation: (\text{D. Weinberg})Department of Mathematics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409-1042
- Email: weinberg@math.ttu.edu
- Received by editor(s): July 27, 1995
- Additional Notes: The research of J. M. Ash and G. Wang was partially supported by a grant from the Faculty and Development Program of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, DePaul University
- Communicated by: Christopher D. Sogge
- © Copyright 1997 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 219-228
- MSC (1991): Primary 42A05; Secondary 42A50, 42A55
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03568-5
- MathSciNet review: 1350931