Rudin's conjecture that the squares form a Λ(4)\Lambda(4)-set

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Let n1,…,nkn_1,\ldots,n_k be natural numbers, and let θ\theta range over the unit circle with normalized Lebesgue measure. The squares form a Λ(4)\Lambda(4)-set when the fourth moment of every finite exponential sum supported on the squares has the corresponding quadratic bound.

Rudin's conjecture.

∫∣∑i=1kexp⁡(2πini2θ)∣4 dθ=O(k2+o(1)).\int\left|\sum_{i=1}^k\exp(2\pi i n_i^2\theta)\right|^4\,d\theta=O(k^{2+o(1)}).

This is a Fourier-analytic conjecture about additive relations among squares and is presented in the source as a longstanding conjecture of Rudin.

References

Primary source

Tom Sanders, “The structure theory of set addition revisited”, arXiv:1212.0458 (2012).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2006–2012). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0608109.

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