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The Littlewood-Gowers problem

Tom Sanders

math.CAarXiv:math/0605522

Abstract

We show that if A is a subset of Z/pZ (p a prime) of density bounded away from 0 and 1 then the A(Z/pZ)-norm (that is the l1-norm of the Fourier transform) of the characterstic function of A is bounded below by an absolute constant times (log p)1/2 - ε as p tends to infinity. This improves on the exponent 1/3 in recent work of Green and Konyagin.

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