Uniform Distribution Theory
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Journal

Uniform Distribution Theory


Volume
& Issue

Volume 15, Issue 1


Published
on

March 26, 2020


Pages

51-74


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Article

A Class of Littlewood Polynomials that Are Not Lα-Flat

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Authors

el Houcein el Abdalaoui Affiliation:
Universite de Rouen Faculte des Sciences et Techniques LaboratoiredeMath´ ematiques Rapha¨el Salem UMR 6085 CNRS-Universit´edeRouen Avenue de l’Universit´e, BP.12 Technopole du Madrillet FR–76801 Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray FRANCE
and Mahendra Nadkarni Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics University of Bombay Vidyanagari, Kalina Mumbai, 400 098, Maharashtra INDIA


Abstract

We exhibit a class of Littlewood polynomials that are not \( L^\alpha \)-flat for any \( \alpha \geq 0 \). Indeed, it is shown that the sequence of Littlewood polynomials is not \( L^\alpha \)-flat, \( \alpha \geq 0 \), when the frequency of \( -1 \) is not in the interval \( \left[\dfrac{1}{4}, \dfrac{3}{4}\right] \). We further obtain a generalization of Jensen-Jensen-Hoholdt's result by establishing the sequence of Littlewood polynomials is not \( L^\alpha \)-flat for any \( \alpha > 2 \) if the frequency of \( -1 \) is not \( \dfrac{1}{2} \). Finally, we prove that the sequence of palindromic Littlewood polynomials with even degrees are not \( L^\alpha \)-flat for any \( \alpha \geq 0 \), and we provide a lemma on the existence of \( c \)-flat polynomials.


Keywords

Merit factor, flat polynomials, ultraflat polynomials, Erdos-Newman flatness.


Citation

Abdalaoui, E. H. E. & Nadkarni, M. (2020). A class of littlewood polynomials that are not lα-flat. Uniform Distribution Theory, 15(1), 51–74. https://doi.org/10.2478/udt-2020-0003

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