{"paper":{"title":"Littlewood Polynomials with Small $L^4$ Norm","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["cs.IT","math.CO","math.IT"],"primary_cat":"math.NT","authors_text":"Daniel J. Katz, Jonathan Jedwab, Kai-Uwe Schmidt","submitted_at":"2012-05-01T20:48:27Z","abstract_excerpt":"Littlewood asked how small the ratio $||f||_4/||f||_2$ (where $||.||_\\alpha$ denotes the $L^\\alpha$ norm on the unit circle) can be for polynomials $f$ having all coefficients in $\\{1,-1\\}$, as the degree tends to infinity. Since 1988, the least known asymptotic value of this ratio has been $\\sqrt[4]{7/6}$, which was conjectured to be minimum. We disprove this conjecture by showing that there is a sequence of such polynomials, derived from the Fekete polynomials, for which the limit of this ratio is less than $\\sqrt[4]{22/19}$."},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1205.0260","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}