Alternating-exponential integral conjecture

Let nn be a positive integer and let α1,,α2n\alpha_1,\ldots,\alpha_{2n} be real numbers satisfying

α1α2α2n.\alpha_1\leq\alpha_2\leq\cdots\leq\alpha_{2n}.

Consider the alternating exponential sum j=12n(1)jeiαjt\sum_{j=1}^{2n}(-1)^j e^{i\alpha_jt}. Alternating-exponential integral conjecture. One has

1j=12n(1)jeiαjt2t2dt11eij=1n(α2jα2j1)t2t2dt.\int_1^{\infty}\frac{\left|\sum_{j=1}^{2n}(-1)^j e^{i\alpha_jt}\right|^2}{t^2}\,dt\geq\int_1^{\infty}\frac{\left|1-e^{i\sum_{j=1}^n(\alpha_{2j}-\alpha_{2j-1})t}\right|^2}{t^2}\,dt.

The source states that this formulation is equivalent to the characteristic-function rearrangement conjecture. It is therefore an associated open formulation of the same problem, expressed through weighted L2L^2 norms of non-harmonic trigonometric polynomials.

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Kristina Oganesyan, “Quadratic spectral concentration of characteristic functions”, arXiv:2406.14921 (2024).

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