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Problem #512: Is it true that, if $A\subset \mathbb{Z}$ is a finite set...

Is it true that, if $A\subset \mathbb{Z}$ is a finite set of size $N$, then\[\int_0^1 \left\lvert \sum_{n\in A}e(n\theta)\right\rvert...

Problem Statement

Is it true that, if $A\subset \mathbb{Z}$ is a finite set of size $N$, then\[\int_0^1 \left\lvert \sum_{n\in A}e(n\theta)\right\rvert \mathrm{d}\theta \gg \log N,\]where $e(x)=e^{2\pi ix }$?
Categories: Analysis

Progress

Littlewood's conjecture, proved independently by Konyagin [Ko81] and McGehee, Pigno, and Smith [MPS81].

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