A Bernstein-type inequality for translates of powers of a cosine bump

Let (λn)n=(\lambda_n)_{n=-\infty}^{\infty} be a strictly increasing sequence of real numbers. Define

H(x)={cosx,xπ/2,0,xπ/2.H(x)= \begin{cases} \cos x,& |x|\le \pi/2,\\ 0,& |x|\ge \pi/2. \end{cases}

For a positive integer MM, suppose that the sequence satisfies the gap condition

λn+Mλnπ\lambda_{n+M}-\lambda_n\ge \pi

for all nn. For every finite sequence (an)(a_n) of real numbers, set

G(x)=anHM(x+λn).G(x)=\sum a_n H^M(x+\lambda_n).

Bernstein-type conjecture. The function GG satisfies

G(x)2dxM2G(x)2dx.\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}|G'(x)|^2\,dx\le M^2\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}|G(x)|^2\,dx.

This conjecture generalizes the preceding inequality for a single power HMH^M, which follows from Bernstein's inequality for trigonometric polynomials via the substitution T(x)=sinMxT(x)=\sin^M x. The claim asks whether the same L2L^2 derivative bound remains valid for arbitrary finite linear combinations of translates whose locations obey the stated gap condition; the supplied text gives no resolution.

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Vilmos Komornik and Paola Loreti, “A Bernstein type inequality”, arXiv:1003.1278 (2010).

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